{"id":36057,"date":"2016-08-20T15:10:29","date_gmt":"2016-08-20T21:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=36057"},"modified":"2016-08-20T15:10:29","modified_gmt":"2016-08-20T21:10:29","slug":"why-no-one-believed-einstein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2016\/08\/why-no-one-believed-einstein.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Why no one believed Einstein&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_36058\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36058\" style=\"width: 595px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2016\/08\/Albert_Einstein_and_Charlie_Chaplin_-_1931.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-36058\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-36058\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2016\/08\/Albert_Einstein_and_Charlie_Chaplin_-_1931-905x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Einstein and Chaplin\" width=\"595\" height=\"673\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-36058\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Albert Einstein with Charlie Chaplin at the 1931 Los Angeles premiere of the film \u201cCity Lights\u201d<br>(Wikimedia Commons public domain)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Very much like other disciplines involving humans, science is influenced by fashions, traditions, assumptions, and personalities. \u00a0The reception of Albert Einstein\u2019s theories of relativity isn\u2019t necessarily the best illustration of such influences, but it, too, plainly shows their effect:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/daily.jstor.org\/why-no-one-believed-einstein\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/daily.jstor.org\/why-no-one-believed-einstein\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Posted from Oslo, Norway<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 Very much like other disciplines involving humans, science is influenced by fashions, traditions, assumptions, and personalities. \u00a0The reception of Albert Einstein\u2019s theories of relativity isn\u2019t necessarily the best illustration of such influences, but it, too, plainly shows their effect: \u00a0 http:\/\/daily.jstor.org\/why-no-one-believed-einstein\/ \u00a0 Posted from Oslo, Norway \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&quot;Why no one believed Einstein&quot;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&nbsp; 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