September 11, 2025
New Ideas in Science
If almost everyone is sure of A, and someone else claims not-A, they are almost always wrong.
However, it can happen that they are right, maybe just one person in a million. For example, until the 1600s, everyone saw that the Sun moved in the sky, and yet Galileo said it was still. Strangely, he was right. And so, until the 1900s, everyone was very sure that time was absolute, until a certain Einstein claimed that time is relative. Strange, but he was right.
The essential point is that if the dissenter says something different, you need to examine what argument they are making.