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Yes "knowledge" accretes for a while, then there is a "paradigm shift" which changes everything.
Newton wasn't wrong, his model works at non-relativistic speeds and for relatively low levels of gravity (hence his equations are used for space travel), Einstein came along and made a more complex model that explained things for a wider set of conditions. That's accretion.
Because Quantum theory (which is a paradigm shift) and Spec. and Gen. Rel are so incompatible there's something we're not getting/ missing in either or both.
When that is explained, I suspect we're going to have to unlearn a lot of what we think we know now.
Newton wasn't wrong when he was taking the piss out of Hooke though, was he?
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