There’s a difference between “can’t imagine” in a colloquial sense, and actual inability to imagine. There’s also a difference between not being able to think of how something fits into our knowledge about the universe (for instance, not being able to come up with a mechanism or not being able to see how the evidence supports it) and not being able to imagine the thing itself.
There also aren’t as many examples of this in the history of science as you probably think. Most of the examples that come to people’s mind involve scientists versus noscientists.
There’s a difference between “can’t imagine” in a colloquial sense, and actual inability to imagine. There’s also a difference between not being able to think of how something fits into our knowledge about the universe (for instance, not being able to come up with a mechanism or not being able to see how the evidence supports it) and not being able to imagine the thing itself.
There also aren’t as many examples of this in the history of science as you probably think. Most of the examples that come to people’s mind involve scientists versus noscientists.
See my reply to army above.