What scientific idea is ready for retirement? Steve Giddings, Professor, University of California, 2014: "Spacetime.
Physics has always been regarded as playing out on an underlying stage of space and time. Special relativity joined these into spacetime... [...] The apparent need to retire classical spacetime as a fundamental concept is profound..." https://www.edge.org/response-detail/25477
Then LIGO fakers "detected" gravitational waves and Giddings found that retiring spacetime was not a good idea. Singing dithyrambs to LIGO's ripples in spacetime turned out to be an immeasurably better alternative:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3X-3k_L79Ek&t=11s
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