Who can beat Einstein? || Acharya Prashant

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00:00Einstein came up with his relativity theory and there was this huge book published against him.

00:06100 authors against Einstein.

00:07And he came up with a really smart one.

00:09He said, if I were false, even one would have been enough.

00:12Why 100?

00:13And that's the thing with facts.

00:15If a fact is proven to be untrue even once, it loses its status.

00:21And it is publicly available to be tested and denied.

00:25You can test it.

00:25You can deny it.

00:26It is always in the public domain.

00:28You do not accept something as a fact just because somebody in authority proclaimed it to be.

00:34I believe in a flat earth because that's what my religious book says.

00:39And you'd say, you know, it's a matter of faith and I respect all faiths.

00:42No, this is nonsensical.

00:43That's not the process by which somebody attains the status of a fact.