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Originally Posted by sheeny
But challenging ideas as successful as General Relativity is a sign of healthy science  .......
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I think it's quite the opposite more like the tall poppy syndrome at work. If a theory is healthy why challenge it in the first place? It's like the engineering maxim if ain't broken then don't fix it.
Despite the title and first paragraph which contradicts the main body of the article, this new gravitational theory doesn't actually challenge GR. Its accepts GR is applicable for low energy scales which is the current state of the Universe.
And as usual articles like this make horrible bloopers. "The snag is that in quantum mechanics, time retains its Newtonian aloofness". Quantum field theories use the concept of time as developed by SR.
Regards
Steven