WHY NO ONE BELIEVED EINSTEIN

JSTOR Daily ^ | 19 Aug, 2016 | MATTHEW WILLS

[MtnClimber]

WWith hindsight, it seems as though scientific breakthroughs sweep quickly to universal acceptance. A paper is published and everybody says, “Eureka!” But that’s not necessarily the case. Sometimes scientists have too much invested in the status quo to accept a new way of looking at things. This was certainly true when Albert Einstein‘s 1905 paper on “special relativity” first challenged the British conception of ether. Einstein argued that space and time were bound up together (something he would elaborate on in his theory of general relativity of 1915, adding gravity to the mix of space/time), a complicated idea that contradicted the long-held belief in something called ether.

In the 19th century, ether (not to be confused with the once-popular anesthetic diethyl ether) was the medium that scientists believed filled space. It might be considered the first “dark matter,” an undetectable something theory said should be out there, the explanation for a number of problems having to do with electricity, the movement of light, even the whole concept of “nothing.” It was, according to one early-20th-century physicist, “accepted as a necessity by all modern physicists.” But as Einstein’s theory noted, there was no experimental confirmation for the substance. There was no proof it existed, other than that the scientific establishment had accepted the concept.

[MtnClimber]

Science is never settled. Not even global warming except in the minds of leftists wishing to control the means of production.

[Paladin2]

The CAGW “Scientists” are no where up to the caliber of Einstein.

[heterosupremacist]

“Imagination is more important than knowledge...”

~ Attributed to Albert Einstein ~

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[aMorePerfectUnion]

Science is never settled.

Explain that to an evolutionist. They are settled.

[abclily]

OK!! Everybody pay attention!

Lesson for today:

1. The sun is 1,300,000 times as big as the earth.

2. The sun is a giant nuclear furnace that controls the climates of all its planets.

3. The earth is one of the sun’s planets.

4. The earth is a speck in comparison to the size of the sun.

5. Inhabitants of the earth are less than specks.

Study Question: How do less-than-specks in congress plan to control the sun?

[ronnietherocket3]

What? Scientists are capable of group think and will mock heretics? Perish the thought. /sarcasm.

[Fiddlstix]

Excellent Post!

[Nifster]

Rarely us a paper published concerning a new idea followed by wide acceptance

[sparklite2]

This is M51, the Whirlpool galaxy.




The smaller galaxy is NGC 5195 .   Tidal distortion of
M51's larger arm looks to have been caused by NGC 5195.
Yet, in the early 1990s, NGC 5195 was found to have such
a markedly different red shift from M51, that the dwarf
galaxy was actually a great distance behind M51 and could
not possibly have any effect on it.

I went to a lecture given by a visiting astronomer that had to
do with star formation, galaxies, the Hertzsprung-Russell
diagram, etc.  Following the lecture I went up to the
astronomer and asked him about the discrepancy between
what our eyes told us and what the science told us. 
With red-faced anger, he told me they were not going to
throw out other scientific knowledge based on one
anomaly.

Nowadays, radio astronomy tells us there are knots of
matter connecting the M51 arm and NGC 5195, which
is not in the distant background, after all.  I don't know
when or how the problem of the red shift was solved.

[Moonman62]

Einstein was an outsider and, due to some of the work he’d done in school, a believer in particles, something forbidden in German physics at the time. All three of his famous papers of 1905 were due to a belief that particles were real rather than just wave phenomena.

Boltzmann was driven to suicide over a similar conflict with the physics establishment.

[Conservative4Ever]

Pass a law that it must go down every night and and have at least a 30 minute meal break and 2 - 10 min paid breaks and be paid at least the minimum wage with overtime and employee benefits. There are rumors of union organization too.

[wastoute]

As I recall Einstein stopped at “Special Relativity”. AFAIK, General Relativity has yet to happen.

[Steely Tom]

Explain that to an evolutionist. They are settled.

The science is settled once it supports the agenda of the Left.

That's because the views of the Left are "correct." That in turn is because the emotions of the Left are facts, which is to say that the personal desires of Leftists are facts.

Which is why they are dictators.

[Brilliant]

“Sometimes scientists have too much invested in the status quo to accept a new way of looking at things.”

I think that describes pretty well the current situation. Scientists have a lot invested in Einstein’s theories.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

Sounds right on!

[Windflier]

Einstein too, will one day fall.

Maybe then, people will get to work in earnest, figuring out faster-than-light travel.

[PIF]

“Rarely us a paper published concerning a new idea followed by wide acceptance”

Or in the case of James Clerk Maxwell (the man who changed everything), that some ideas are transformed by some one else into something else and the rest thrown away ... and so it came about that everything we know about the entire electromagnetic spectrum, all that Einstein and Tesla based their works on, and all that devolved from that knowledge (essentially modern civilization), came to exist.

[katana]

Sometimes scientists have too much invested in the status quo to accept a new way of looking at things.

Sometimes?? Academics in general, and not just in the sciences, defend whatever dogma and theory they've published like psychotic badgers defending a den.

[MCH]

Sometimes scientists have too much invested in the status quo to accept a new way of looking at things.

Ditto for engineers. At the large tech company where I work, I've tried to push new ways of doing things and new technologies my whole career. It's extremely difficult.

There's a whole cadre of grand poobah type senior technical personnel that have always done things in a certain way that worked for them. They will NOT change or give new technologies a chance unless they've already been adopted by our competitors and we're obviously behind the technology curve.

Never underestimate the stubbornness and close mindedness of the senior technical community that sits in judgement of their peers and junior staff members. The majority are threatened by new ideas. I've been fighting it myself for many years now.