"John Curtis" wrote in message
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RLO wrote:

"How can physics live up to its true greatness except
by a new revolution which dwarfs all its past revolutions?
And when it comes, will we not say to each other,
'Oh, how beautiful and simple it is!
How could we have missed it for so long!'."
John Archibald Wheeler, 2000

On the other hand, revolutionary ideas posess diagnostic
features:

"All great truths begin as blasphemies" G.B. Shaw 1917

"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed.
Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being
self-evident." Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860).
John Curtis

'By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.' - Galileo
Galilei

Wheeler was a bigot, as are all relativists and all aetherialists.
Physics was already beautiful and simple before Goodricke
denied scientific principles:
http://www.androcles01.pwp.blueyonde...lgol/Algol.htm
How could YOU have missed it for so long!
--Androcles