Question

You are a famous scientist, renowned for the well-accepted idea you developed over the last 15 years. a new idea suddenly appears from some upstart junior scientist. for the new idea to overthrow your well-accepted idea and gain widespread scientific acceptance, what must happen?

Answer 1

What should happen is that the new idea that has been formulated must be explained in a way that it be should explain the things just like old idea you have explained and it is best to do a better job that the previous and old idea in terms of predicting the outcomes of the many new experiments that is designed by various people in testing the ideas.