[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 ~

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Yp6QPso-ev8/UNyU_rL8JdI/AAAAAAAAAF8/eEyGaF_Enjg/s1600/alberteinstein+quote++stupidity+vs+genius.jpg

[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.

[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.

[wastoute]

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

[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.

[Windflier]

Einstein too, will one day fall.

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

[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.

[Mariner]

http://www.space.com/17661-theory-general-relativity.html

[KosmicKitty]

Excellent read - “The Structure of Scientific Revolution” by Thomas Kuhn

One of the top 5 books everyone should read on my personal list :-)

Explains a lot of post modern thought and shows how physics can be applied to social phenomenon. Focus on the concept of the “paradigm.”

Read it in small doses.

[stylin19a]

i always thought is was the I before E thing. He has it wrong twice in his name.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Just a reminder for those wondering about "settled science."

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[Carl Vehse]

In 1676 Danish Lutheran astronomer, Ole Roemer, presented his timing measurements of the eclipses of Jupiter’s moon Io, showing that the speed of light was finite. While a few scientists (e.g., Isaac Newton and Christiaan Huygens) supported Roemer, the general scientific community held that the speed of light was infinitely fast. Over half-a-century later (and almost two decades after Roemer’s death), English physicist James Bradley confirmed in 1728 the finite speed of light using stellar aberration measurements.

[minnesota_bound]

Sheldon’s grandfather argued that Einstein was wrong.