On a smaller scale, the same thing is done on this relativistic re-skin of Asteroids about 5 years ago:
http://playthisthing.com/relativistic-asteroids

Well...I don't think trotting out Einstein's example everytime a theorist makes a surprising claim is very productive. What the parent post was pointing out is that there isn't an absolute correspondence between our mathematical formalisms of physical laws and physical reality itself. Surprising things happen when our experimental limits are pushed...the mathematical model holds or sometimes it breaks. Afterall, Einstein wasn't a science celebrity after the publication of his first papers. It took the startling physical realization of his predictions, namely, the anamoly in Mercury's orbit.

By the way, it's extremely false myth that Einstein was bad at math.