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Indeed, I just think general relativity would never have been discovered had einstein not questioned settled science. In other words, if einstein assumed "the e
by umvi 6y ago
Indeed, I just think general relativity would never have been discovered had einstein not questioned settled science. In other words, if einstein assumed "the earth doesn't accelerate upward, the apple accelerates downward! The science is settled!", we would have never been enlightened by his paradigm shift.
- dragonwriter 6y ago> In other words, if einstein assumed “the earth doesn’t accelerate upward, the apple accelerates downward! The science is settled!”, But, insofar as there was a broadly accepted pre-GR scientific explanation, it was not “The earth doesn’t accelerate upward, the apple accelerates downardThe second half, yes, but not the first.