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Old 10-August-2006, 07:08 PM
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Originally Posted by John Kierein
He once asked Carl Sagan about the Compton effect being the cause of the cosmological red shift. Carl's response was: "That would change EVERYTHING!"
That's why it's not mainstream.
Can you come up with a single shred of evidence that supports the view that ideas that "change everything" are automatically resisted by the scientific community? I would like you to consider this list of ideas that "changed everything" that mainstream scientists were by far the first to accept:
-relativity
-quantum mechanics
-expanding universe
-second law of thermodynamics
-Newton's laws
-the uncertainty principle
-Goedel's theorem
...etc. Get the idea?
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