Comment Re:Ugh (Score 1) 467
> Previous scientific theories weren't proven wrong, just incomplete
That depends which ones you're talking about. Newton's theories were merely proven incomplete, and in ways that don't much impact macroscopic objects in everyday life.
There are other ideas, however, that have, after being held as unassailable truth by the entire educated world for centuries, turned out to be not merely incomplete but in fact totally dead wrong. The poster boy for this phenomenon is, of course, Aristotle, but it's been repeated many times over the last three millennia.
That depends which ones you're talking about. Newton's theories were merely proven incomplete, and in ways that don't much impact macroscopic objects in everyday life.
There are other ideas, however, that have, after being held as unassailable truth by the entire educated world for centuries, turned out to be not merely incomplete but in fact totally dead wrong. The poster boy for this phenomenon is, of course, Aristotle, but it's been repeated many times over the last three millennia.