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Originally Posted by BigGayAl
Not that the article is right, but it certainly agrees 100% with everything I said on the matter  its nice to know I'm not the only idiot out there! |
It wasn't perfectly smooth, but Einstein did have important people backing him, especially in England. As said, very early on the problem was as much that people did not quite comprehend it. Those who did tended to come down in favor of Einstein. It seems rather unlikely that the theory would have been accepted across the board as soon as one experiment propped it up if in fact there had not already been a broad acknowledgement of its merits beforehand.
When writing history, you can always find the naysayers, and if that is someones interest, it's always rather easy to make out that there existed a huge controversy. Sort of like when Galileo pointed out that the sun was at the center of the galaxy, not the earth. The public account on this subject has become quite distorted, and it was less of an revelation than it was an affront to the Catholic Church. Heck, even the Church didn't really oppose it, they just opposed him saying it in a way which detracted from their power.