[Mr Ramsbotham]

"Physicists are quite conservative. It's not easy to convince them to change a theory that is accepted for 50 to 60 years. ..." It wasn't easy for Galileo to convince the great thinkers of his day that heavy objects fell at the same speed as light objects. In fact, if he hadn't thrown his balls off the Leaning Tower of Pisa, we might still be arguing the point. So my suggestion is, to paraphrase a great line from The Three Stooges: "Can we dispense with the formalities, and make with the fuel?"

[nsmart]

"The unquestioning acceptance of the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum theory has, in the last 40 years or so, held back progress on the development of alternative theories. ... Blind acceptance of the orthodox position cannot produce the challenges needed to push the theory eventually to its breaking point. And break it will, probably in a way no one can predict to produce a theory no one can imagine."

Jim Baggott, 1992 [1]

[frithguild]

In fact, if he hadn't thrown his balls off the Leaning Tower of Pisa, we might still be arguing the point.

Hey I know Galileo made great sacrifices to advance science - but this one - just WOW!!