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Originally Posted by renormalised
The original ideas were thought of as being crackpot (=hard to understand and beyond orthodox)...although if you listen to a lot of physicists, they still think String Theory is left of centre
But that could be said for most theories.
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Crackpot theories by definition are logically inconsistent and doesn't reflect on the complexity and/or unorthodoxy of the theory.
Perhaps the term "revolutionary" is more apt.
BTW welcome back.
Where have you been?
Steven