The people discounting Kepler and Einstein had actually read their work. They discounted it based on the lack of physical evidence(experimental results). People

The people discounting Kepler and Einstein had actually read their work. They discounted it based on the lack of physical evidence(experimental results). People in Einstein's time were still confused and trying to understand the outcome of the Michaelson-Morley experiment. As for Kepler, he didn't provide any new evidence either. The only advantage to changing the center of the system was to eliminate the need to calculate epicycles when creating an ephemeris. I could certainly see how both theories would have attracted some disbelief in their time. In Einstein's case, people started to accept SR when new experimental results came that only made sense if the speed of light were constant and the laws of physics were invariant in all inertial reference frames. Why do we have to accept that something novel is happening in this case? Can you find any way to explain this effect with existing theory? More importantly, what would have to be changed to accommodate this phenomenon? Is it possible that the engineers are just measuring noise? These are important questions that have to be answered.