Wrong scientific beliefs that were held for long periods

Re:Wrong scientific beliefs that were held for long periods by ranprieur on Tuesday November 23, 2010 @01:48PM (#1934874)

I wonder what beliefs we have now that will be ridiculed in 500 years.

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Re:Wrong scientific beliefs that were held for long periods by Avshalom on Tuesday November 23, 2010 @05:29PM (#1935650)

I don't know about ridiculed but once quantum gravity gets sorted out there is a good chance that either relativity or quantum mechanics is going to be "wrong" in the sense the Newtonian sense of "inaccurate at X scale."

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Re:Wrong scientific beliefs that were held for long periods by davidj on Wednesday November 24, 2010 @08:04PM (#1939010)

Look at my comment with -4 at the very bottom, already being ridiculed right now :)

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