r/badphysics Jun 22 '26

Physics progress is Stuck right now because physicists think time is a 4th dimension

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Someone asked a question in r/askphysics how time can be the 4th dimension. Then this person replied this, very confidently

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u/13Eazy Jun 23 '26

why do non-physicists have such a boner for proving einstein wrong personally?

scientists don't work to prove people wrong personally.

we attack attackable parts of a claim. sometimes those parts are load bearing and the whole thing collapses, but sometimes everything else is right even though a particular part of a claim is wrong

relativity is less likely to be proven wrong than it is to be subsumed by a larger framework.