-- card: 12719 from stack: in -- bmap block id: 27095 -- flags: 0000 -- background id: 2564 -- name: -- part contents for background part 1 ----- text ----- Max Planck pointed out, revolutionary new ideas in physics do not always gain acceptance because their opponents eventually become convinced of their truth. They are often accepted because their opponents eventually grow old and die. -- part contents for background part 2 ----- text ----- John A. Wheeler once said, "The past has no existence until it is recorded in the present."