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No, I'm not suggesting a conspiracy theory. If you think about it, there is no need for people to conspire to produce the effect. There is simply the clear psyc
by blueprint 8y ago
No, I'm not suggesting a conspiracy theory. If you think about it, there is no need for people to conspire to produce the effect. There is simply the clear psychological reaction that people tend to reject what contradicts the things they are deeply involved in and have already accepted. Does that mean all scientists who learn about and believe they understand the Standard Model have closed minds? No. But it does mean that individual scientists' judgement will tend to be influenced to give a lower priority to the things they think are less important. Please don't misrepresent my comment. As a side note if something is true then it has 100% chance of happening. If you don't know it's not true then you don't know about the enormity of its chances.
- krastanov 8y agoYour last comment about chances shows misunderstanding of how science and/or statistics work. We have not tested our theories in every possible way, so yes, we know they will need updating here and there. However, there is an immense body of work pointing to no "antigravity", so the chance of a surprising result from this experiment is vanishingly small. If you are interested, check out Feynman's Quantum Field Theory textbook where he quite descriptively puts constraints on tensor interactions (like gravity). I would be happy to suggest more introductory books if you are interested.