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Originally Posted by Suzy_A
...Not to say that he IS wrong. He might be right, but I doubt it. When Einstein first published the papers on SR and GR, and when Heaviside published his work on the ionosphere, "Maxwell's" equations, induction theory of transmission lines, when Chandrasekhar did his work, the Establishment may have said it was rubbish, but there were instantly open minded people who did have the necessary mathematics and physics to understand that they were right, and it wasn't long before the new paradigm took hold.
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All true, but it also follows on that the new paradigm is not necessarily correct either. It's just a pity that most scientist don't see that, or if they do, refuse to acknowledge this in favour of the more comfortable position.