Quote #15
I consider it quite possible that physics cannot be based on the field
concept, i. e., on continuous structures. In that case *nothing* remains of
my entire castle in the air gravitation theory included, [and of] the rest
of modern physics.
-- Einstein in a 1954 letter to Besso
[quoted from: "Subtle is the Lord", Abraham Pais, page 467.]
I consider it quite possible that physics cannot be based on the field
concept, i. e., on continuous structures. In that case *nothing* remains of
my entire castle in the air gravitation theory included, [and of] the rest
of modern physics.
-- Einstein in a 1954 letter to Besso
[quoted from: "Subtle is the Lord", Abraham Pais, page 467.]
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