Didn't the past show that anything is possible?
No.
That there have been changes in paradigm, sometimes turning our understanding of reality totally upside down?
That certainly happens.
Why then are scientists always so arrogant to dismiss any example of thinking outside the box? Shouldn't we open our minds a bit further?
It isn't that simple. A paradigm shift is cognitively very difficult. It isn't just a matter of changing a few assumptions. It can involved changing the whole conceptual structure on which the science is build.
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