Re:Attributes and predictors of long Covid
by sdenton4 on Monday March 22, 2021 @03:22PM
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"I was using him as one of those pioneers which where faced with the universe acting strangely rather than anything to do with relativity."
Yeah, all I'm saying is that his total collection of contributions wasn't at stake here, so it was probably a bit easier to back down.
FWIW, my 'motivating anecdote' in this discussion is an old prof describing the earlier years of algebraic topology, which he had been very active in. There were apparently a number of older topologists who were pretty resistant to algebraization of the field. Which possibly had a lot to do with Poincare's attitudes about logic and proof.
So, yes some people will object long term, but it’s important to keep their objections in context. Plate tectonics is a slightly more recent revolutionary idea that actually converted most skeptics, but the early objections where reasonable and the actual conversion was quick once the idea approached it’s modern form.