Was Einstein Wrong?

[David Morris]

http://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2016/02/16/466109612/was-einstein-wrong?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=morningedition&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20160216

When science reaches the hairy edges of our experience, when it reaches
outward to the boundaries of our abilities to describe the world, is there
something else coming along for the ride? Together with the powerful,
abstract mathematics and the ingenious instrumentation, is there something
beyond "just the facts" requiring special attention when physicists make
their grandest claims about the cosmos?

To be exact, is there a philosophy — a "metaphysics" — that goes beyond
what the math and the data support? And, if such background metaphysics
exist, could it be wrong even if the theory itself is right in terms of
experiments and data?

This question is at the heart of a fascinating book I've been reading
called The Physicist and the Philosopher
<http://press.princeton.edu/titles/10445.html> by Jimena Canales. It's a
story about Albert Einstein (who needs no introduction) and Henri Bergson
(who probably does).
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