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[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 24 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

It's fun to think about all the shit the people who first came up with that idea went through.

today he is most remembered as the originator of continental drift hypothesis by suggesting in 1912 that the continents are slowly drifting around the Earth (German: Kontinentalverschiebung).

Alfred Wegener - his hypothesis was not accepted by mainstream geology until the 1950s, when numerous discoveries such as palaeomagnetism provided strong support for continental drift, and thereby a substantial basis for today's model of plate tectonics

Forty years of "you moron!" and "fuckin' weirdo dweeb" to be proven right in a major shift of academic thinking. And he wasn't even the first to think of it - anyone folding a map back in the days probably had a similar thought. But. The rigid nature of what is allowed to be a fact was . . uh . . different. Then.

[–] paultimate14@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You might want to take another look at this map

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

Yeah yeah, no I get it, just sayin’. It was a huge humiliating effort to get fellow academics to acknowledge it at all. And that’s still true in some areas today.

[–] halvar@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

ye sure but it's australia and the east coast of the US