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Was the Casimir effect highly controversial like this? Is there a good example of a discovery that was both challenging to reproduce and initially dismissed by
by api 12y ago
Was the Casimir effect highly controversial like this? Is there a good example of a discovery that was both challenging to reproduce and initially dismissed by many but was later vindicated? We hear lots of examples of the inverse of this like Pons and Fleischmann but I'm sure there have to be cases like this.
- madaxe_again 12y agoThe roundness of the earth. Heliocentric solar system. Circulation of blood in the body. Yes they're "a long time ago" (really, a few centuries isn't a long time), but they're the tip of the iceberg of contested knowledge.
- marcus_holmes 12y agoplate tectonics - massively, enormously controversial, it split the entire earth sciences down the middle with much shouting and name-calling. You can still find old geography textbooks that don't refer to it at all. Turned out to be true and a generation of earth scientists went muttering expletives into retirement.
- api 12y agoThose all seem long ago. Are there any in the last, say, 50 years? That's when I'm having trouble thinking of any. Also the roundness of the earth was never as far as I know controversial among the learned. Heliocentricity was only controversial for religious reasons.