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Originally Posted by Benedict1957
For those that don't want to watch the video, Einstein's special theory of relativity predicts that an atomic clock on an airplane after traveling a pre-determined distance will be off by .000000043 +/- .000000001 seconds.
Not .000000047 seconds. Not .000000067 seconds. Not .000000021 seconds. But .000000043 seconds.
Guess how much the clock was off by compared to an atomic clock on earth?
.000000043 seconds.
I'd call that an amazingly accurate prediction that clearly lends evidence to Einstein's theory of special relativity.
There may be another theory in the future that is even more accurate than Einstein's theory of special relativity. That's fine. But that doesn't dilute the accomplishments of special relativity.
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Yup, there have been tons of experiments done and so far they have all supported the theory. Even more recently with the detection of gravitational waves.
The only "issues" with it as far as I know are when it comes to the quantum scale. Which is why we have quantum mechanics to explain things at the quantum scale. This is why the holy grail would be a theory that could combine them all together, the most well known probably being string theory.