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On Mon, 2 Dec 2024 18:22:50 +0000, rhertz wrote:

> Yes, I do.
>
> In particular since mid '50s.
>
> Too much money, credibility on science due to the sustained hype over
> relativity, prestige and many other important issues are involved.
>
> Considering that E = mc² has been publicly hyped as the most important
> equation in the history of science

Most famous, NOT the most important.
Hardly ANYBODY would claim that it is the most important.

> (See Max Planck Institute), imagine
> THE DISASTER for science, millions of publications, academy, etc., that
> it would cause publishing (with proofs):
>
> BREAKING NEWS: E = mc² HAS BEEN PROVEN FALSE. TOTAL COLLAPSE OF THE
> SCIENTIFIC ESTABLISMENT!
>
>
> What would follow to this news, even if actually E = 0.99 mc²?

We know that E = mc² to about the 10^-7 level.

If the equation is found to be off at some level of significance,
that would be an extremely important result, not the end of science.

> Worse than proving that the speed of light in vacuum, across large
> distance, IS NOT A CONSTANT.

Personally, I hope that the next space-borne equivalence principle
test, whatever technology it uses (STEP never got the funding that
it deserved), finds that the equivalence principle breaks down at
some level of accuracy. As I have written elsewhere:

| "Currently envisioned tests of the weak equivalence principle are
| approaching a degree of sensitivity such that non-discovery of a
| violation would be just as profound a result as discovery of a
| violation. Non-discovery of equivalence principle violation in this
| range would suggest that gravity is so fundamentally different from
| other forces as to require a major reevaluation of current attempts
| to unify gravity with the other forces of nature. A positive
| detection, on the other hand, would provide a major guidepost
| towards unification."