Spacetime physics is overdue for a paradigm change. Who’s going to make it happen?
Hiermit nehme ich Bezug auf folgenden Beitrag vom 24. Februar 2012 in diesem Blog:
Zwillingsparadoxon für Studenten
Hierin ist am Schluß der Seite STUDENTS OF OR USERS OF SPECIAL RELATIVITY
nachstehender wichtiger Text von der NPA ergänzr worden:
Science Revolutions: J. T. Wilson, a geologist involved in the shift to continental drift and a student of the history of science, wrote the following about revolutions in science, "In each case the great event marking the revolution revealed contradictions and introduced problems which the old system could not resolve, leading to a period of confusion.
For the most part it was not experts but rebels, outsiders and interlopers from other fields of science who suggested the need for a revolution and produced the evidence supporting it. Thus most geologists continued to oppose the concept of continental drift long after Wegener (a meteorologist) had championed it, after physicists had provided key evidence supporting it and after many of the public had accepted it."
So, far from welcoming new ideas, the establishment who had the most to lose, clung for as long as possible to the old, justifying their position by questioning the new data, discrediting those who advanced them, and trying to patch up the old theories. In these endeavours they frequently found themselves supporting quite illogical positions. Before each revolution was accepted, the state of the subject had become chaotic, but each solved many problems so that the ensuing periods were times of great scientific progress and material benefit. [1]
[Continental drift was first suggested by Abraham Ortelius in 1596, but was not accepted by geologists for 350 years until around 1950 and then it was soon further refined by the construct of plate tectonics.]
[1] J. T. Wilson, Nature 265, 196 (1977)
as quoted by I. McCausland, A Scientific Adventure: Reflections on the Riddle of Relativity, pg 173 (Aperion 2011)