In fact, most people don’t understand the Relativity. Most still rejects Evolution. It wasn’t easy to understand the Copernican system in the Galileo’s time.
It is easy to understand for a handful, and it seems obvious only to a few, when a new major breakthrough is made. Galileo was wrong. It may be easier, but not “easy to understand once a truth is revealed”.
It wasn’t easy to understand the Copernican system in the Galileo’s time.
I suppose people didn’t understand it because they didn’t want to, not because they couldn’t manage to. (Same with evolution—what the OP was about. I might agree about relativity, though I guess for some people at least the absolute denial macro does play some part.)
Galileo was wrong.
More like stuff that was true back them is no longer true now.
I suppose people didn’t understand it because they didn’t want to
I suppose not. Why? People either have an inborn concept of the absolute up-down direction, either they develop it early in life. Updating to the round (let alone moving and rotating Earth) is not that easy and trivial for a naive mind of a child or for a Medieval man.
A new truth is usually heavy to understand for everybody. Had not been so, the science would progress faster.
I don’t see how that contradicts my claim that it’s not that people couldn’t understand the meaning of the statement “the Earth revolves around the Sun”, but rather they disagreed with it because it was at odds with what they thought of the world. iħ∂|Ψ⟩/∂t = Ĥ|Ψ⟩, now that’s a statement most people won’t even understand enough to tell whether they think it’s true or false.
I don’t see how that contradicts my claim that it’s not that people couldn’t understand the meaning of the statement “the Earth revolves around the Sun” but rather they disagreed with it. iħ∂|Ψ⟩/∂t = Ĥ|Ψ⟩, now that’s a statement most people won’t even understand enough to tell whether they think it’s true or false.
In fact, most people don’t understand the Relativity. Most still rejects Evolution. It wasn’t easy to understand the Copernican system in the Galileo’s time.
It is easy to understand for a handful, and it seems obvious only to a few, when a new major breakthrough is made. Galileo was wrong. It may be easier, but not “easy to understand once a truth is revealed”.
I suppose people didn’t understand it because they didn’t want to, not because they couldn’t manage to. (Same with evolution—what the OP was about. I might agree about relativity, though I guess for some people at least the absolute denial macro does play some part.)
More like stuff that was true back them is no longer true now.
I suppose not. Why? People either have an inborn concept of the absolute up-down direction, either they develop it early in life. Updating to the round (let alone moving and rotating Earth) is not that easy and trivial for a naive mind of a child or for a Medieval man.
A new truth is usually heavy to understand for everybody. Had not been so, the science would progress faster.
I don’t see how that contradicts my claim that it’s not that people couldn’t understand the meaning of the statement “the Earth revolves around the Sun”, but rather they disagreed with it because it was at odds with what they thought of the world. iħ∂|Ψ⟩/∂t = Ĥ|Ψ⟩, now that’s a statement most people won’t even understand enough to tell whether they think it’s true or false.
I don’t see how that contradicts my claim that it’s not that people couldn’t understand the meaning of the statement “the Earth revolves around the Sun” but rather they disagreed with it. iħ∂|Ψ⟩/∂t = Ĥ|Ψ⟩, now that’s a statement most people won’t even understand enough to tell whether they think it’s true or false.