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Are not all challenging ideas inflammatory at first? https://daily.jstor.org/why-no-one-believed-einstein/ https://daily.jstor.org/why-no-one-believed-einstein

• Retric 2y ago
  No, not specifically. Relativity was created after experiments had already poked holes in the ether theory. It definitely broke new ground, but from what I found far more scientists viewed it as intriguing rather than inflammatory.
  • ttyprintk 2y ago
    I would even argue that it’s inflammatory to keep developing aether theory after Michaelson-Morley. Persistently devising potentially-lucrative counterexamples: oh, that’s luminiferous aether, I’m working on electromagnetic aether. Today, the last great aether believers like Tesla get a lot of undue credit as scientists rather than as merely aether engineers.