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What is fallacious is claiming something is absolutely certain when it's not. One should avoid to make false claims or generalized assertions when explaining a subject to someone less knowledgeable, because it more than often can lead to misconceptions. We are very confident the theory is true...

I'm not complaining, just saying 300 years ago scientists thought Newton's law of gravitation was true, and it turns out his equation was only an approximation of the effects of gravity. What prevents the same from happening to Einstein's equations? You could think of "ultimate truth" as...

Einstein's relativity works very well, but it leaves many phenomena unexplained and is based on a materialistic view of the universe which may not hold forever. Einstein's theory isn't the ultimate truth, so without getting into a "what if" debate it's still fair to say that the theory isn't...