R. Measures wrote:
Indeed, Yuri. In the early 1900s, when an Austrian patent office clerk
and amateur physicist theorized that photons (which have zero-mass and
travel at the speed of light) were bent by gravity-waves, many
recognized experts said it can't be and laughed. Decades later,
someone measured the time-interval of light from a more distant star
passing behind a massive star and re-emerging. The photon /
gravity-wave theory was correct.
When measurements don't fit in with everything we already know, real
scientists and engineers are trained to ask themselves:
"Is this something really new - am I really another Einstein? Or did I
simply get it wrong?"
--
73 from Ian G3SEK 'In Practice' columnist for RadCom (RSGB)
http://www.ifwtech.co.uk/g3sek
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