He said there would be a rethinking of the assumptions because they could not account for the mass to energy theory.
***I have posted this before on other threads. It sounds like E=M*C^2 isn’t quite accurate, it is more of E = M*[C(t)]^2, where C is no longer a constant but a function of time.
Discussions on this thread would suggest that the M would not be M for the first few moments of the universe, but it now becomes a function of ???what??? uncongealed mass vs. congealed mass? or a function of M * Information? Or maybe M[CongealedInformation(t)] where the congealed information becomes mass and the uncongealed information moves faster than light. It gets pretty complicated pretty fast.
So now we might have something like E = M[CongealedInformation(t)]*[C(t)]^2 where congealed information as a function of time becomes mass, and C is a function of time as well... and these complications drop out of the equation very rapidly to become E=M*C^2.
When I lived in NM, I had several physicist friends.
Most of them were Ham Operators like myself. Most of them worked at NMSU, White Sands, Los Alamos or similar places.
The one I referred to, was not connected to those places. I laughed and called him a semi hippie dropout. He was not a hippie, but he was pretty much a dropout. But very very bright.
Theoretical Physics are above my head. But I rely on the judgement of the “non phoney” scientists I knew.