>I can't imagine how anyone could read the story of plate tectonics and not understand it to be exactly what Kuhn was talking about It was nothing like the shi

>I can't imagine how anyone could read the story of plate tectonics and not understand it to be exactly what Kuhn was talking about It was nothing like the shift from Aristotelean physics to Newton. The vast majority of what geologists had previously believed remained valid, and there was no change in the related sciences of physics and chemistry. And indeed it was findings in the previous geological science that lead to it. Imagine, if you will, that plate tectonics had included that the Earth is flat and the abolition of the first law of thermodynamics and you begin to understand what a true paradigm revolution would be.