> consensus stabilizies after around 50 years or so One other reason for science being such a long-term process is Planck's Principle: https://en.wikipedia.or

> consensus stabilizies after around 50 years or so One other reason for science being such a long-term process is Planck's Principle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck%27s_principle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck%27s_principle Basically, scientific innovations spread by the old orthodoxy retiring/dying and replaced by successors who are familiarized with the new ideas (and then proceed to form the new orthodoxy).