Erich J. Lerner has written an excellent book about how mankind, become so attached to a frame of reference, that is almost impossible, to make a real paradigm shift; in this case it has to do with the theory of the Big Bang, he writes:

“THE PLASMA ALTERNATIVE

The test of scientific theory is the correspondence of predictions and observation, and the Big Bang has flunked. It predicts that there should be no objects in the universe older than twenty billion years and larger than 150 million light-years across. There are. It predicts that the universe, on such a large scale, should be smooth and homogeneous. The universe isn't. The theory predicts that, to produce the galaxies we see around us from the tiny fluctuations evident in the microwave background, there must be a hundred times as much dark matter as visible matter. There's no evidence that there's any dark matter at all. And if there is no dark matter, the theory predicts, no galaxies will form. Yet there they are, scattered across the sky. We live in one.”

Why is it so difficult to make a paradigm shift even in science?

This was the case with complex numbers too, as is shown in “An Imaginary Tale The Story of sqr(-1), by an Emerithus Professor of EE, in the University of New Hampshire, Paul J. Nahim

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