Hi Lowell. I wonder how long it’s going to take them to accept the FFA theory? If the plate tectonic theory is any example it’s going to be a long time.

The human has a very interesting trait. He is unwilling to change. It’s hard for him to accept new ideas particularly when it goes against what he has been taught, or believes in.

As an annalist for the USAF I learned there were many reasons for this resistant to change, but the biggest reason is that it meant what you believed in no longer applied. It meant accepting something you don’t understand. It meant that you had to learn something new. It meant that what you learned in the past may not be true and in some cases no longer true. In some ways this is good because it places the burden on the person with the theory to prove it. However that proof may never be found because the subject is so complex that no one can understand it. They can see what happens, but they don’t understand why it happens. They can’t do a test that will duplicate it. That can’t measure it. They can’t see it. They can only see the results, but not why the results are the way they are.

I’m sure you ran into this with the theory of “free-oscillation triggering” that you and Ben-Zion presented in 1995. The resistant to change is hard to overcome. In some cases it can be impossible. Take Care…Don in creepy town