I can also mention that when working on ideas that have not yet become the dominant paradigm, you get disproportionally much negative response. Galileo was prosecuted by the church a few times if I recall, set free every time, but still a lot of extra work.
Apollo 12 crashed the empty ascent stage of its Lunar Model on the lunar surface, an event that Werner von Brauhn for example wrote about in
this article from March 1970. The seismographs that had been placed on the surface measured seismic waves from the impact, and "the moon rang like a bell for nearly an hour". That is all documented.
I grew up with plate tectonics and the fixed radius model, as in, during childhood, when biologically you are more prone to trust ideas without actual scrutiny, I was told the radius had been fixed and that only the Atlantic Ocean closes shut while the Pacific Ocean surrounded "Pangea". Then at age 27 in 2014 I came across the idea that the Earth radius has increased. The two models, plate tectonics and expansion tectonics, differ only on
a single parameter. I am quite capable of being data-driven and actually lean towards being sceptical in many ways. I love natural science, and I'm just a person, like anyone else. Professionally I design game theoretical coordination systems, those require at least some capacity to think about and design rational systems.
There is an abundance of evidence for radial increase, and, there has been an abundance of evidence for a long time. I am very open to civil debate, but, ad hominems are
not civil. They
are a fallacy, in this case to defend a status quo within a group, in-group bias.
To find common ground, the radial increase requires the volume to increase with the cube of the radius. That mass increase is seen as a problem, "where does the new mass come from". I believe that the mass has been pushed outwards, solving the mass-increase problem with that there has not been a mass increase. That fits with the data from Apollo 12, and, with seismic data in general, the "
shadow zones" (a concept in seismology) are from energy loss with distance, silent at 104°, then convergence at antipode from epicentre, reverberating 40° outwards in all directions, 180-40 =140° (
visual illustration).
