magiccarpetride;684926 Wrote: 
> There was a time back in ancient history when Newtonian physicists
> roamed the earth. Then one rainy day along came a guy named Albert
> Einstein and proceeded to kick some Newtonian ass. He continued messing
> with the feeble Newtonian minds by proposing some ungodly thing called
> Theory of Relativity. They, of course, thought that was the stupidest
> thing ever.
Sorry, but this is a very bad analogy.

When the Special Theory of Relativity was published, the reaction from
the world's physicists was NOT to suggest it was stupid. Rather, it was
recognised for what it was: a viable theory that explained experimental
results that did not fit with Newtonian mechanics - such as that the
measured speed of light was the same regardless of the relative motions
of source and observer.


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