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Originally Posted by beppe
Who accepts? a committee of acceptors? Financed by whom? Plausible? Is there anything possibly "plausible" in the intermixing of chaos and "order" ?
Staying in the "order". Until the early 60's there were 2 scientific schools of thought, that sustained the theory of ether, in the description of electromagnetic waves. That theory, that originated by a good application of mathematics to a faulty physical thinking, at the beginning was very satisfactory, than, to take into account new experimental manifestations, required properties of the ether that were more and more complex ("cervellotic"). They made countless experiments. Of course for each experiment they received important sums of money and imperishable fame and honors. Down goes ether. False. From about 75 years it was on "trust".
This is not a minor point. It is around this that Albert Einstein built his discoveries.
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Another interesting example was the disagreement between Darwin and Kelvin over the age of the solar system - the theory of evolution was incompatible with the known facts of physics at the time.
http://scienceblogs.com/startswithab..._darwin_vs.php
It turned out that it was physics that was wrong.