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Originally Posted by Ken G
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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Relativity? That was in the air (eg. Poincare and others) and so Einstein's ideas were not that novel.
Quantum mechanics? Yeah that was a change everything moment. So much so that many of the old guard just could not make the leap (eg. Einstein himself by then).
Expanding universe? Yup another one, Hubble himself didn't really believe his own eyes on this and continued to look (behind the scenes) for other explanations.
etc. etc.