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There is a publication of 100 physicists telling Einstein that his theory of relativity was wrong. I wasn’t able to understand the physics enough when I actually tried reading it, but I imagine the crux of the dissenter’s argument is, “Einstein, if you’re correct, then that means that nearly all that we thought that we knew about physics is wrong.” I do empathize with the dissenters. They have a huge challenge as there are now two paradigms. The “old” and the “new”. At a period of transition, one can, in theory, choose to adopt a new paradigm, but adopting a new paradigm isn’t taught in schools. Maybe “adopting a new paradigm” cannot be taught in schools? If one continues to adopt the assumptions of the old paradigm (and ignores its anomalies) one can continue to be correct according to the old paradigm. However, when two the paradigms become incompatible, the one that is “more true”, will win over time. It is never the case that a new paradigm is less true than the old, otherwise it could not have replaced the incumbent. Also, it goes to show that one should always be open to most of their ideas being wrong. It is said that the greatest scientific discovery of all time was the discovery of ignorance. Similarly, the greatest political discovery of all time will be the discovery of ignorance 0-knowledge