When general relativity was first put forward in 1915, the math was very unfamiliar to most physicists. Now we teach general relativity to advanced high school students.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The math of quantum mechanics and the math of general relativity, when they confront one another, they are ferocious antagonists and the equations don't work.
It would be better for the true physics if there were no mathematicians on earth.
I always found it satisfying that gravity was described by Einstein's geometric theory of general relativity.
I am not enough of a mathematician to be able to judge either the well-foundedness or the limits of relativity in physics.
I had the idea that it would be wonderful to be a physicist or a mathematician maybe 500 years ago around the time of Newton when there were really fundamental things just lying around to be discovered.
The real reason why general relativity is widely accepted is because it made predictions that were borne out by experimental observations.
M-theory is the unified theory Einstein was hoping to find.
Over the years, I began to understand that there were a lot of people out there reading physics in popular literature that they could not understand - not because it was too advanced, but because it wasn't advanced enough.
No matter how hard you try to teach your cat general relativity, you're going to fail.
And it really began with Einstein. We attended his lectures. Now the theory of relativity remained - and still remains - only a theory. It has not been proven. But it suggested a completely different picture of the physical world.