alt Hacker NewsI don't agree with this philosophy at all. Current scientific understanding is not and need not be compatible with past scientific belief.
I don't agree with this philosophy at all. Current scientific understanding is not and need not be compatible with past scientific belief.
Not belief, things we have exponentially observed. Either you need to explain why the observation was actually incorrect. Or you need to have a theory that explains the observation. We believe relativity is correct because we have lots of experiments and observations that show that it's correct. That doesn't mean relativity is actually correct. However, it means that if it's wrong, whatever actually is correct must somehow encompass what relativity predicts in the same way relativity currently does.