> Not that I'm disagreeing but you could have said "Newton mechanics has been the workhorse method for centuries and everyone has found that they work" then Einstein came along and dumped the apple cart.
You couldn't have said that. Einstein's contributions were solving real problems with Newtonian mechanics, where it was clearly inadequate to explain how things actually worked. The photoelectric effect was known for years before Einstein explained it with the first glimmer of quantum mechanics. The problem of a fixed reference frame for the motion of light was known for a long time before Einstein came up with relativity.
The situations aren't really comparable. Newtonian mechanics had major known flaws that people were trying to reconcile. They weren't tiny effects hiding near the noise.
I totally agree that investigations should continue until an explanation is found, it's just that people seem far too eager to assume that it must be something new, when with what's known so far it's overwhelmingly likely to be experimental error.
You couldn't have said that. Einstein's contributions were solving real problems with Newtonian mechanics, where it was clearly inadequate to explain how things actually worked. The photoelectric effect was known for years before Einstein explained it with the first glimmer of quantum mechanics. The problem of a fixed reference frame for the motion of light was known for a long time before Einstein came up with relativity.
The situations aren't really comparable. Newtonian mechanics had major known flaws that people were trying to reconcile. They weren't tiny effects hiding near the noise.
I totally agree that investigations should continue until an explanation is found, it's just that people seem far too eager to assume that it must be something new, when with what's known so far it's overwhelmingly likely to be experimental error.