All sorts of things like this. Rogue waves essentially weren't believed to be possible until 1995.
Conflating failure of imagination (lack of proposed mechanism) and impossibility is a rather common failure mode. Heck, it took a decade for biologists to just agree on the Hardy-Weinberg theorem!
Conflating failure of imagination (lack of proposed mechanism) and impossibility is a rather common failure mode. Heck, it took a decade for biologists to just agree on the Hardy-Weinberg theorem!
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