Reflections on the topics of two non-existent, and perhaps never could have appeared, sciences:
Philological physics or Physical Philology.

After he created the General Theory of Relativity in 1916, that is, exactly one hundred years ago, Einstein began working on a Unified Field Theory (ETP), which should combine all the various force fields – gravity, electromagnetism, nuclear and other fields – into something ONE!
For thirty-nine years, until the last day of his life, this great mind worked on a problem, striving to solve it.
AND HE HAVEN’T SOLVED!
Einstein reasoned as follows: Since I have managed to reduce the gravitational field to a certain geometric property of space, the next step should be to further geometrize other types of forces besides gravity.

What’s the matter? Why did a seemingly logical and promising idea fail to pay off – after all, thirty-nine years of continuous hard labor were put in place to solve the problem. And by whom? Not some incompetent, albeit hardworking, digger of hidden treasures by Nature, but a powerful mind with brilliant physical intuition!
I will try to give an answer to this question.
The reasons are two mistakes of Einstein.

And here I will interrupt myself with a sarcastic remark: In order to understand and discover the mistakes of a brilliant mind, one must have at least the power of reason, no less brilliant! So, Esprit, do you really think that you are intellectually no lower, or maybe higher, than Einstein himself?
In general, the reproach to me, expressed through the mouth of Salieri in Pushkin’s brilliant drama, will sound:
“… Like a cherub

He brings to us somesongs of paradise,

And wakens in us – children of the dust

A wingless longing – then he flies away!”
So you, Esprit, A CHILD OF DUST, imagined yourself to be the equal of this cherub and mistook your “Wingless desire” for a real ability to sing something no worse???!!!

No, I did not imagine or exaggerate my rather modest capabilities. I just don’t accept this thesis.: To detect errors of the highest intelligence, one must have an equally high talent. 

In my “Improvisations” I have pointed out more than once the flaws of various undoubtedly talented poets, not excluding Pushkin — the “Sun of Russian Poetry”. Each of us, whether talented or untalented, is only a mortal, and often a person weak in spirit and talent, a child of dust. Even these cherub’s people are winged, but are mortal beings with all the weaknesses of creatures of dust. Therefore, in order to see their mistakes, you do not need to have powerful wings at all. For their MISTAKES – are mistakes that do not hover somewhere in the empyrean, but there are, at best, air pits into which even cherubs fall, helplessly tumbling. And sometimes or often they fall to the ground. And we, the children of dust, bent to the ground by its powerful gravity, can still raise our heads and see these dips and flounders in the air! To do this, it is not necessary to hover near or above the cherubs falling and flapping their wings in vain.

So, Einstein’s mistakes.
I have already mentioned the first one more than once, and it boils down to a single phrase borrowed from Greek mythology:
“Einstein entered the dark Maze without the thread of Ariadne in his hands — his powerful physical intuition, and there he was devoured by a mathematical Minotaur.”
According to Leopold Infeld’s memoirs, Einstein once confessed to him that he had not seen a single real theoretical physicist until he was thirty. To which Infeld remarks: I wanted to ask him if he had ever looked in a mirror.

But the point of Einstein’s remark was that he had not met any theoretical physicists of that time who perfectly mastered the powerful mathematical apparatus of theoretical physics. Einstein himself repeatedly mentioned his weak mathematical intuition.  And he did not consider fluency in complex mathematical apparatus to be the most important thing in his work. For example, his friend Marcel Grossman, who knew mathematics better, helped him develop the mathematics of General Relativity. But after seeing “real theoretical physicists,” Einstein realized his weakness. He saw that he could not compete with them in mathematics. But he was already the recognized creator of two great physical theories!!! It’s inconvenient to be considered an ignoramus, since you yourself are recognized as one of the greatest physicists in the world! And Einstein began to IMITATE his colleagues, began to “think mathematically” more and more, that is, he himself discarded his most powerful weapon – brilliant physical intuition.  That was his first mistake.

The idea of the second one came to my mind relatively recently, perhaps a couple of months ago. It has something to do with the first one.
The theory of relativity was created by Einstein because when solving a purely physical problem – the inconsistency of classical Galilean mechanics and electrodynamics – he did NOT solve it ON a PLANE, a mental physical plane, as Lorentz and Poincare had tried before him, AND UNSUCCESSFULLY. He went out into the third, or fourth, or any N-dimensional, other mental space. He found the error of our habitual thinking in our psychology, conditioned by the entire animal experience of earthly beings. Thus, it turned out that a purely physical theory, it seems, became it thanks to the revision of our psychology! More precisely, taking into account the fact that habitual, instinctive, NATURAL ideas about the world around us were completely wrong from the point of view of strict logical analysis!
That’s the genius of Einstein’s thought!
And, having become a recognized theoretical physicist, he began to solve the following problems also ON the PLANE, having imperceptibly renounced the “Wings of Intuition”. He sought to create a Unified Field Theory, reducing everything to the features of OUR THREE-DIMENSIONAL GEOMETRIC SPACE. It seems clear: After all, gravity has been reduced to this geometry! But the trick is that, in my opinion, he should have gone beyond the three-dimensional geometric world and looked in other “spaces” for some common solutions that could combine everything into a Unified Field Theory. Let’s say that our habitual three-dimensional geometric space is just a kind of thin film formed by other spaces along with Time. Let’s say, by some electromagnetic spaces, which, having touched, created the geometric space in which we exist. And in these “proto-spaces” THERE is no length, width, or depth at all! And the three-dimensional “geometry” appeared due to the fact that the electric voltage, the magnetic voltage and the direction of propagation of electromagnetic vibrations are mutually orthogonal (perpendicular)! So there are three coordinates of OUR geometry! Together, over Time, they gave rise to this “our” world. And all the phenomena of electromagnetism are just “guests” in our world who have come to us from these spaces. That is why light and electromagnetic waves have such a strange and UNUSUAL property for us, “children of geometry” – the constancy of the propagation velocity, independent of the “geometric movement” of bodies in our world.
That, I think, was what Einstein’s mistakes were that led to such a tragic outcome.
Faciant meliora potentes.
10 XI 2016