why scientists of 1905 were reluctant to accept einstein's theory of relativity?

In the years after scientists came to accept light as a wave, brilliant ... It was only when Einstein published his theory of special relativity in 1905 that the ... Indeed, Kaiser points out, even though physicists were wrong about the ether, ... I believe Einstein's reluctance to accept uncertainty as part of natu...

Einstein's parents were concerned about his intelligence because he was slow ... He wrote his first scientific paper as a teenager. ... (This describes his Special Theory of Relativity, which stamped a speed limit on the universe: the speed of light.) But it wasn't until the end of 1905 that Einstein developed h...

Despite its success, some people are reluctant to accept the science of quantum ... In classical physics, all outcomes were predetermined by earlier conditions. ... Albert Einstein published his special theory of relativity in 1905.

In 1905, Albert Einstein wrote two papers that introduced his Special Theory of ... Albert Einstein, a 26-year-old patent clerk, wrote a paper that revolutionized science. ... but that both space and time were relative to the position of the observer.

The classical laws of physics were formulated by Newton in the Principia in 1687. According to this theory the motion of a particle has to be described relative to an ... Such a medium was called the ether and many 19^th Century scientists ... . In September 1905 Einstein published a short but important paper in which he ...

Stigler's Law of eponymy holds that scientific laws and discoveries are never given the names ... never in person, and I was at first reluctant to accept. ... of Pluto in 1930, while its actual discoverers were David Jewitt and Jane Luu, ... Consider Albert Einstein and the theories of special and general relativity...