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If a theory is healthy why challenge it in the first place?
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Simple answer to that is, "Why do people climb mountains"
If you don't challenge a prevailing paradigm, you get no progress or at least no progress worth writing home about. That's precisely what Einstein did himself...as did others.
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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.
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Precisely, but you have to give the editors some leeway, and the reporters a bit of "journalistic license"
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