Pls tell me einstein theory of light proved wrong or not?

Question

chemistry

Answer 1

Scientific theories are never proven right, they are only proven wrong. How can truth advance then?

What happens is, a certain theory is accepted as the best explanation for some phenomenon or group of related phenomena. More observations (experiments) are made, and some of them contradict the predictions of the accepted theory.

In response to this, some scientists come up with another theory, different from the accepted theory, which explains all the known observations, including the new observations that contradict the older theory. If subsequent observations further contradict the older theory, and support the new theory, eventually the old theory is replaced by the new one, or at least the limits of the old theory are accepted and the new theory is considered more complete, with the old theory becoming merely an approximation to the new one.

So Einstein's theories were not proven right. Instead, experiments were done that agreed with the Einstein theories' predictions, and contradicted the older Newtonian theory. At this point, Newton's theory was proven wrong, and Einstein's theory became the accepted theory. But, Einstein's theory can (and probably will) be contradicted by some future experiment(s), which will prompt the creation of a new theory.

But Newton's theories are still used by scientists and engineers, they are just considered to be good approximations to how the world behaves.....approximations good enough to be used in almost all circustances we are likely to encounter in daily life. Only for cases of very fast speeds or very strong gravity do we have to replace Newton's ideas with Einstein's.

Answer 2

Einstein, being a productive scientist, had lots of different ideas that involved light in one way or another.

His first published paper suggested that light was quantized, which is to say that a particular bundle of light energy cannot have ANY amount of energy... it must fall into certain minimal units. This is now widely accepted.

He is more famous for proposing special relativity. One of special relativity's two main postulates is that the speed of light in a vacuum is a universal constant and that nothing can travel faster than this. It also suggests that no matter how fast you are travelling, light always seems to move away from you at the speed of light. These ideas were so wacky that everyone was eager to disprove them, making them some of the most thoroughly proven theories in existance, because no one was able to.

Hope that helps!

Answer 3

Einstein didn't have a theory of light. He had several theories, particulary to do with relativity (in which light plays a role, but is not a theory of light). And some elements of Einstein's theories have been modified in light of quantum mechanics; even Einstein himself admitted to certain errors, but in general his theories have either been sound, or been the framework on which more comprehensive theories have been built (and continue to be built)

Answer 4

Einsteins relativity theory (including the constant speed of light) works just fine when it comes to big objects, but when it comes to atoms it fails.

Quantum mechanics works fine for atoms, but cannot be applied to larger stuff (i.e. according to quantam mechanics it is possible for a person to walk through a wall, but we all know it isn't).

Combining the 2 formulas/theories would be nice, but until now they are each simply "correct in a limited field".

Answer 5

theories are based on assumption.Nobody can explain the laws of nature by a single formula.Similarly,if einstein proved that e=mc2,
it does not means that nature follows it.It is just a mathematical formula which gives the same result as nature's.for e.g.
y=x & y= e^(m-1)*x ,are the same formula for particular case when m=1.
Similarly, e=mc2 is a formula which is just a part of nature's original complex formulas..
So, if we consider einstein's formula ,it is false if we compare it with the absolute nature's general formula but it is true if we consider our dimension's particular case.
So, till now acc. to what observations and results we have recieved, einstein's theory is true as no special behaviour of any particle till now is found to contradict einstein's theory of light.

In reality, nature follows no formula and no law can explain the behaviour of nature ever.Nature is random.

Answer 6

Theory of light is still a theory. It is not proved wrong or not yet.

Answer 7

it rather is getting infuriating. they stumbled on one result that doubtless violates the familiar guiding principle that no longer something ought to circulate quicker than the cost of light. This result runs against tens of millions of previous outcomes that all and sundry shown it, so what scientists say is "it incredibly is exciting. Can every physique clarify our result, or discover the place our test could have brought about an blunders?" be conscious the object which you appropriate is entitled "Pillar of physics _challenged_" (emphasis mine; 'challenged' does no longer mean 'proved incorrect'). the international is split in 2 communities of folk (no longer the two distinctive): people who comprehend somewhat technology and take any assertion with a hearty dose of wonderment, skepticism, rationality, and dodge leaping to end; and people who exhibit a maximum obvious loss of restraint and in many cases are in each and every single place exhibiting how ignorant and in many cases stupid they in all probability are. Care to guess which team you belong to?

Answer 8

NO. Be my guest and prove it wrong yourself. Come up with a more feasible theory, if you can.