It's so hard for people to let go of an idea. I remember reading about how a lot of Einstein's later ideas came from him trying to disprove Quantum theory, and

It's so hard for people to let go of an idea. I remember reading about how a lot of Einstein's later ideas came from him trying to disprove Quantum theory, and that it takes ~50 years for a big idea to be accepted. ie, as you say, it's never accepted.