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What are some theories/ideas that sounded extremely silly to most people before they finally proved their merits to most?

>> No.11541028 [DELETED] 

Wheel Theory
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheel_theory
Anton Setzer - Wheels
http://www.cs.swan.ac.uk/~csetzer/articles/wheel.pdf
Jesper Carlstrom - Wheels: On Division by Zero
http://www2.math.su.se/reports/2001/11/2001-11.pdf

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>>11541024
Wheel Theory
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheel_theory
Anton Setzer - Wheels
http://www.cs.swan.ac.uk/~csetzer/articles/wheel.pdf
Jesper Carlstrom - Wheels: On Division by Zero
http://www2.math.su.se/reports/2001/11/2001-11.pdf

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>>11541024
Recursion theory (pre-computers/computers).
feasibility of machine learning (coming with better hardware).
Riemannian geometry.

Those are some of all the math things where I can say that they had major use that wasn't intended in that way.
All the decades after Freges Begriffschrift (invention of second order logic) couldn't have seen what's coming out of that.

But if you just want to see some doubters, just check The Sun in the late 80's, pic related

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Statistical mechanics

>> No.11541356

>>11541024
Not everybody can build muscle

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>wheel theory
This thread is for fruitful theories, not useless trash.

>> No.11541444

>>11541024
“[Alfred Wegener] is most remembered as the originator of the theory of continental drift by hypothesizing in 1912 that the continents are slowly drifting around the Earth (German: Kontinentalverschiebung). His hypothesis was controversial and widely rejected by mainstream geology until the 1950s”.

>> No.11541445

>>11541024
>WHAT DO YOU MEAN ZERO?? LMFAO MY GOOD BUDDY THEODORE SAID THAT WAS IMPOSSIBLE BY DEFINITION DUMB SCHIZO
Almost reminds me of 0.9999...=1 schizos that can't accept they are not the same number.

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>>11541444
Checked.
>>11541445
You cannot find one professional mathematician who believes 0.999...=/=1. You're the schizo here.

>> No.11541454

>>11541024
QM and Relativity both sound absolutely retarded.

>> No.11541512

>>11541454
They still do.

>> No.11541672

>>11541454
that is, until you see the truth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcb_9j8KKdg&feature=emb_title