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Originally Posted by renormalised
Why not....they were supremely confident in Newton's laws for over 250 years before they began to slowly realise that they weren't entirely accurate. Same can be said of SR (and GR, even). Theories are not immutable...even the best of them.
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That's exactly right. Newton's laws weren't proven wrong and thrown out, they're just as valid and accurate today as the were when Newton formulated them. What has changed is our understanding of the assumptions and constraints under which they are valid.
The same has happened and will continue to happen with everything we "know", at some point we will realise and understand it as a special case of something more general.
Cheers
Steffen.