Conceptual Philosophy (Why RST Is a Reinterpretation, Not a Rejection)
“In physics, equations may be stable across decades, but the concepts they represent are provisional and evolve with understanding.”
Working premise: General Relativity (GR) and Quantum Mechanics (QM) are experimentally constrained maps of physical behavior — not sacred or final descriptions of underlying reality. Their equations remain extraordinarily reliable within the domains where they have been tested, but the ideas and interpretations attached to those equations are not frozen in time.
In healthy science, concepts evolve as new data accumulates, tensions become visible, and better unifying perspectives become possible. Predictive success does not guarantee ontological completeness. History shows that accurate equations can survive deep conceptual reframing: Newton was not “destroyed” by Einstein, and classical field theory was not “killed” by quantum theory — each was reinterpreted as a limit of a broader description.
RST is written in that spirit. It does not claim that GR or QM fail; it claims that the same verified results may admit a deeper physical reading. In RST, the goal is not to discard established frameworks, but to ask whether persistent conceptual strains — time, measurement, singularities, and the “dark sector” — reflect limitations of interpretation rather than failures of data.
In short: equations may remain stable across decades, but the meanings we assign to them are provisional. RST is a test-driven attempt to update the story without breaking the parts that already work.
General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics are experimentally constrained maps of reality, not sacred or final descriptions of it. Their equations remain extraordinarily reliable within their tested domains, but the ideas and interpretations attached to those equations are not frozen in time. They evolve as new data accumulates, new inconsistencies surface, and new unifying perspectives become possible. Science does not progress by preserving conceptual structures indefinitely; it progresses by updating them when evidence demands it.