Einstein and Rosen (ER) coauthored “The Particle Problem in the General Theory of Relativity” (ER paper) and published it in 1935.¹ ER were troubled by the fact theoretical physics did not provide a unified foundation for the theoretical treatment of all phenomena.¹ There was a general relativistic theory for macroscopic phenomena and quantum theory for a large number of atomic and quantum phenomena.¹ ER were also troubled by the singularity problem in general relativity (GR).¹ ER wanted to resolve these troublesome issues with a relativistic theory, namely the ER paper.¹ ER claimed success concerning the atomistic character of matter, and claimed some success concerning resolving the singularity problem, and they thought continued work might account for quantum phenomena.¹ Einstein was not able to account for quantum phenomena with a relativistic theory. He knew if physics could not be based on the continuous field concept then nothing would remain of his relativistic theory or of contemporary physics.² In 1954 Einstein admitted he had not been able to account for the atomistic character of nature,² and he speculated the way forward in physics was to discard the continuum concept, along with space and time and differential quotients ,² and he proposed a dis-continuum physics but did not know how to proceed  with it.²

In the late 1970s Emory Taylor became an amateur astronomer. By the early 1980s Taylor realized the importance of the ER paper and began working on discontinuum geometry and conceptual dis-continuum physics (DCP). Taylor was led to the discontinuum through a series of dreams in which he was visited by Hypatia. In the first dream, a naked woman repeatedly called his name and gently shook him awake. He did not recognize her. She said, “Avenge me, Emory.” This was unusual because no one called him by his first name back then, and her lips were not synchronized with her words. She walked toward his bedroom door. Sitting up, Emory noticed a deep pool of water. She dove in and swam underwater to three granite steps in front of his bedroom door. On the first step she again said, with lips and words out of sync, “Avenge me, Emory.” On the second step she leaned toward him, and he heard whispering in his ears, “Descartes. Do not forget.” On the top step the skin fell off her naked body. Skinless, she again said, with lips and words out of sync, “Avenge me, Emory.” The door opened, white light shown around her, and the skin was back on her beautiful, naked body. A storm had developed above them. Lightning and thunder erupted, and rain poured down as she said, “Hypatia.” As she was disappearing into the white light, Emory again heard whispering in his ears, “I am Hypatia. Avenge me, Emory. Do not forget. Descartes.” The door closed. Emory awoke.

It was Descartes’ use of a discontinuum for drawing a complex geometrical curve that sent Emory down the path to discontinuum geometry. In the early 1990s Emory heard about the Bruno insight, a generalization of Bruno’s cosmology with the religious aspects replaced with physical aspects and nonphysical aspects. Emory paid little attention to it until Hypatia visited again in a dream, making him aware a discontinuum was at the heart of the Bruno insight. In the early 2000s Emory became aware of Einstein’s 1954 letters to Michele Besso and H. S. Joachim and David Bohm, in which Einstein confessed he had not been able to account for the atomistic character of nature, and he speculated the way forward in physics was to discard the continuum concept, along with space and time, and differential quotients, and proposed a dis-continuum physics.

By 2018 Emory’s attempts to conceptualize DCP were nearly completed and Jennifer Scheer, a math instructor at Northeast Community College in Norfolk, Nebraska (USA), became a sounding-board. In the same time period, Emory read Einstein’s 1961 book³ about relativity that was only sold in the USA. In that book Emory discovered that Einstein, without realizing it, introduced a quantized two-dimensional discontinuum geometry (Q2DDG, also called Einstein's quantized geometry) and inadvertently falsified relativity. This meant the foundations of physics do not now (and never did) include a fundamentally sound relativistic theory to account for macroscopic phenomena, and relativity must be a first approximation of a more fundamental discontinuum theory based on a Q2DDG or an algebraic version of it.⁴ Emory then published “Falsification of Einstein’s relativity” in the peer review physics journal Physics Essays in 2021.⁴

Dr. Iyer replied to an email sent to him by Emory on or about 14 July 2021. Emory had emailed 100 physicists from a list he compiled while reading physics papers, mostly at arxiv.org. Emory’s letter included the quote from Einstein’s 1954 letter to David Bohm about Einstein not having any idea about what elementary concepts would replace the continuum concept and space and time. Emory claimed to know the elementary concepts but did not know the algebraic version needed to replace relativity. Emory inquired, “I want to know if you will write the algebraic version and then we publish together.” Only a few (four or five) physicists replied. Iyer was one of them and informed Emory about the paper “Theory of a super luminous vacuum quanta as the fabric of Space” he coauthored with Emmanouil Markoulakis. Iyer wanted to confirm the 1954 quotes by Einstein and ask Emory to provide the source, which Emory did. Iyer then joined the struggle to bring Einstein’s discontinuum theory to fruition. This led to the publication of several peer reviewed papers about DCP in Physics Essays^5-14. The second was “Rethinking special relativity, spacetime, and proposing a discontinuum”, which was coauthored by Emory and Iyer, on 25 February 2022 in Physics Essays.⁶ Its Abstract: "Following Einstein’s 1954 speculation that it is possible physics is based on a discontinuum theory, and that the continuum concept along with space and time must be discarded, the discovery of a new interpretation of the constancy of the speed of light leads to the discovery of three systems of measure used by inertial observers, which leads to rethinking the concept of spacetime and re-designing the foundations of physics."⁵

References
¹A. Einstein and N. Rosen, Phys. Rev. 48, 73 (1935).
²J. Stachel, Einstein from ’B’ to ’Z (Springer Science & Business Media, 2001), Vol. 9, pp. 150–152.
³A. Einstein, Relativity: The Special and General Theory (Crown Publishers, Inc., New York, 1961), pp. 55, 82–90, 94–5, 102, 142–144.
⁴E. Taylor. Phys Essays 34, 4 (2021).
⁵E. Taylor, and R. Iyer, Physics Essays 35, 1 (2022). Pages 55-60. http://dx.doi.org/10.4006/0836-1398-35.1.55.
⁶E. Taylor, Physics Essays 35, 3 (2022). Pages 250-251. http://dx.doi.org/10.4006/0836-1398-35.3.250.
⁷E. Taylor, and R. Iyer, Physics Essays 35, 4 (2022). Pages 395-397. http://dx.doi.org/10.4006/0836-1398-35.4.395.
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¹²E. Taylor, and R. Iyer, Physics Essays 37, 1 (2024). pages 71-73. http://dx.doi.org/10.4006/0836-1398-37.1.71
¹³E. Taylor, and R. Iyer, Physics Essays 37, 2 (2024). pages 165-168. http://dx.doi.org/10.4006/0836-1398-37.2.165
¹⁴E. Taylor, and R. Iyer, Physics Essays 37, 4 (2024). pages pp. 316-319. http://dx.doi.org/10.4006/0836-1398-37.4.316.