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Originally Posted by CraigD
My only serious concerns with Relativity stem from its foundations as a theory of Classical Mechanics. I believe that it is fundamentally incompatible with Quantum Mechanics, and thus must be superseded by a QM-compatible “theory of everything”. I suspect this will be difficult.
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There is such a thing as relativistic quantum field theory. It is certainly fraught with difficulties but has successfully been used, through the 20th century, to sort out the phenomenology of particle physics, including the standard model. There is certainly a "tension" between QM and the local causality of SR, you might be interested in looking up the Bell inequalities and ongoing research concerning them.
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Originally Posted by CraigD
the effect of a gravitation field can be distinguished from that of acceleration by the observation that, in the case of a gravitational field, a object some distance “above” another experiences less force than an equal mass “below” it.
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(Grooooooooan...)
That's obvious! As stated in GR, the principle says that,
for any point P, a coordinate map can be chosen to be
locally inertial. Think of it along the lines of a straight line tangent to a curve. Learn differential geometry before saying GR is faulty.
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