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| | #The [[Sun]] is a '''''perfect''''' sphere - "the solar flattening is ... too small to agree with that predicted from its surface rotation."<ref>http://www.tgdaily.com/space-features/65491-why-is-the-sun-so-round</ref> | | #The [[Sun]] is a '''''perfect''''' sphere - "the solar flattening is ... too small to agree with that predicted from its surface rotation."<ref>http://www.tgdaily.com/space-features/65491-why-is-the-sun-so-round</ref> |
| | #[[Quantum entanglement]] near the [[event horizon]] of a [[black hole]]—with one particle of the pair on one side, and other particle of the pair on the other side—defies the Theory of Relativity.<ref>https://simonsfoundation.org/features/science-news/mathematics-and-physical-science/alice-and-bob-meet-the-wall-of-fire/</ref> Relativity is a mathematical theory that cannot permit any exceptions, just as arithmetic falls part if 2 times 2 is ever not equal to 4. See also [[black hole firewall]].[[Image:600px-Albert Einstein Head.jpg|thumbnail|right|200px| | | #[[Quantum entanglement]] near the [[event horizon]] of a [[black hole]]—with one particle of the pair on one side, and other particle of the pair on the other side—defies the Theory of Relativity.<ref>https://simonsfoundation.org/features/science-news/mathematics-and-physical-science/alice-and-bob-meet-the-wall-of-fire/</ref> Relativity is a mathematical theory that cannot permit any exceptions, just as arithmetic falls part if 2 times 2 is ever not equal to 4. See also [[black hole firewall]].[[Image:600px-Albert Einstein Head.jpg|thumbnail|right|200px| |
| − | *"I do not share the crusading spirit of the professional [[Atheism|atheist]] whose fervor is mostly due to a painful act of liberation from the fetters of religious indoctrination received in youth. I prefer an attitude of humility corresponding to the weakness of our intellectual understanding of nature and of our own being." - [[Albert Einstein]]<ref name="Isaacson390">Isaacson, Walter (2008). [http://books.google.com/books?id=cdxWNE7NY6QC&pg=PT390 ''Einstein: His Life and Universe''] (New York: Simon and Schuster), p. 390. Retrieved from GoogleBooks archive on February 19, 2015.</ref>]]
| + | "I do not share the crusading spirit of the professional [[Atheism|atheist]] whose fervor is mostly due to a painful act of liberation from the fetters of religious indoctrination received in youth. I prefer an attitude of humility corresponding to the weakness of our intellectual understanding of nature and of our own being." - [[Albert Einstein]]<ref name="Isaacson390">Isaacson, Walter (2008). [http://books.google.com/books?id=cdxWNE7NY6QC&pg=PT390 ''Einstein: His Life and Universe''] (New York: Simon and Schuster), p. 390. Retrieved from GoogleBooks archive on February 19, 2015.</ref>]] |
| | #The speed of light in a vacuum is slower than expected—less than ''c''—based on new data from a 25-year-old [[supernova]].<ref>[http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/184879-einsteinian-error-the-25-year-old-supernova-that-could-change-the-speed-of-light-forever Einsteinian error: The 25-year-old supernova that could change the speed of light forever]</ref> | | #The speed of light in a vacuum is slower than expected—less than ''c''—based on new data from a 25-year-old [[supernova]].<ref>[http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/184879-einsteinian-error-the-25-year-old-supernova-that-could-change-the-speed-of-light-forever Einsteinian error: The 25-year-old supernova that could change the speed of light forever]</ref> |
| | #"Celestial signals defy [[Albert Einstein]]. Strange signals picked up from black holes and distant supernovae suggest there's more to space-time than Einstein believed."<ref>[http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22129500.700-breaking-relativity-celestial-signals-defy-einstein.html ''New Scientist'' (Jan. 2, 2014)]</ref> | | #"Celestial signals defy [[Albert Einstein]]. Strange signals picked up from black holes and distant supernovae suggest there's more to space-time than Einstein believed."<ref>[http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22129500.700-breaking-relativity-celestial-signals-defy-einstein.html ''New Scientist'' (Jan. 2, 2014)]</ref> |