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|VideoDescription=The second law explained by Hakob Barseghyan
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{{Theory Example
|Title=Acceptance of General Relativity
|Description=The example is presented in [[Barseghyan (2015)|''The Laws of Scientific Change'']]:
<blockquote>Even the most “revolutionary” theories must meet the actual requirements of the time in order to become accepted. Einstein’s general relativity is considered as one of the most ground-breaking theories of all time and, yet, it was evaluated in an orderly fashion and became accepted only after it satisfied the requirements of the time. From that episode we can reconstruct what the actual requirements of the time were. It is well known that the theory became accepted circa 1920, after the publication of the results of Eddington’s famous observations of the Solar eclipse of May 29, 1919 which confirmed one of the novel predictions of general relativity – namely, the deflection of light in the spacetime curved due to the Sun’s mass. Thus, it is safe to say that the scientific community of the time expected (among other things) that a new theory must have confirmed novel predictions.[[CiteRef::Barseghyan (2015)|p. 130]]</blockquote>
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