Oftentimes I have heard people say the math is theoretically correct but the technology of the time doesn’t allow for the technology to be produced. Can someone explain how we can solve math for someone not physically possible at the current time?
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Lets look at a good example.
Einstein’s equations of a space time and general relitivity worked on every observation made in 1916, however when calculating super dense objects moving stupendously fast, it predicted that waves would form in space time. These waves would shift matter distances smaller than the centre of an atom. There was not a way in the world they were detecting that in 1916.
Fast forward 99 years of exponential growth in technology, and humanity had created gravitational wave detectors, sensitive enough to measure these tiny changes. And we saw exactly what was predicted by Einstein back in WW1.
Einstein was 99 years ahead of what technology allowed.
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