"Was Einstein wrong? Do we have to kill off the theory of space and time to make sense of the universe?" https://space.com/end-of-einstein-space-time

Of course you do, theoretical physicists (if it's not too late). First get rid of the underlying premise, Einstein's constant-speed-of-light nonsense:

"Einstein pulled all of these ideas together in his 1905 theory of special relativity, which postulated that the speed of light was a constant. For this to be true, space and time had to be combined into a single framework that conspired to keep light's
speed the same for all observers." https://www.livescience.com/space-time.html

How about LIGO's ripples in space-time, theoretical physicists? Will you continue to worship them after killing off Einstein's space-time?

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What scientific idea is ready for retirement? Steve Giddings: "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

Space-time is a corollary of Einstein's 1905 constant-speed-of-light postulate. If space-time is wrong and should be retired, then the postulate is false. Logic forbids the combination (true postulate, wrong corollary).

Nima Arkani-Hamed: "Almost all of us believe that space-time doesn't really exist, space-time is doomed and has to be replaced..." https://youtu.be/U47kyV4TMnE?t=369

"We've known for decades that space-time is doomed," says Arkani-Hamed. "We know it is not there in the next version of physics." http://discovermagazine.com/2014/jan-feb/10-shaping-the-future-of-physics

So space-time does not exist and is not there in the next version of physics but LIGO's gravitational waves, ripples in the nonexistent space-time, do exist and WILL be there in the next version of physics? The Cheshire cat is not there but his grin is:

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51J-7PIffiL.jpg

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