Is relativity, SR and Time itself a religious belief? It has all the ingredients of a cult.
Proof is discarded or hidden and naysayers are burned at the stake.
When it fails a new 'particle' is is proposed.
just saying...
Are you perhaps aware what entities popularized this practice exactly? The same folks who are now in the same organizations/institutions that want to bury these historical events and distance themselves from such people and such time. Trying to be under the guise that their interpretations of their religion is the valid one today, while others are wrong (in the same way their forefathers claimed similarly 1:1 when they were alive). The approach and slightly changing message repeating constantly while trying to survive the rest of the worlds' advances and the slow erosion of nearly all their claims slowly but surly being disproven by the one ONLY thing that has proven itself time and again to be our best course for a better understanding of our reality, which in turn gives us the predictive capability to make sensible decisions to the things we aspire to achieve.
The only reason any changes of religious belief occurs is because it's power as an institution has diminished, and sensible people have finally outnumbered and over powered the lunacy machinations of the psychotic power-hungry ego maniacs of the past when people knew no better, and knew better than to question the power of religious authority.
Which I feel is a true betrayal of one's own religion in the first place, as you either have to A) Concede everyone before you was wrong in their interpretations, or B) God actually allows any leeway in the interpretations of his divine decrees.
Either way you look at it, you either throw out the foundations of your religion, and then have nothing to base it on (aside from your own personal beliefs and whatever "you feel like it" should be, like others have always done anyway). Or you have to risk sending yourself to whatever punishment awaits those that question their God by saying his revelations aren't the ultimate and everlasting decrees of which there can never be misinterpretation about. The odds are stacked against you though, as there have been many people before you who believed their ideas were right about their religion - it takes a massive hubris to think you happen to be alive just by chance, where the majority accepted interpretation is right, while all others are wrong.
That is the differentiating fact between science and religion, and why they can never coexist equally (but can coexist hypocritically and illogically). Science has no qualms about changing it's mind, in fact that is the welcoming aspect, where the challenge is to prove the other person wrong if you can, and everyone is all the better for it, as all benefit from truth. Only in religion can asking for the whole truth be seen as a non virtue (many who will attest to the instances where you're told not to "ask to many questions").
If belief in "Time" is a religion, then belief in anything is a religion, and thus there is no use for the word belief, and we can just call everything a religion that someone believes in. All a part of a cult somehow as you seem to think.
The only time in science people are figuratively "burned at the stake" is when they are exposed for being liars attempting to pass off truth as fact through fabricated experimental results, or purposefully misleading tactics going against the Scientific Method. As for hiding? Scientific evidence is never hidden after it is published. This is a declaratory statement that need not be accepted. As for discarded? Evidence can always be discarded if it doesn't have any merit in the ascertaining of a conclusion. Like if I am trying to figure out what makes people fat, and then I accidentally figure the diameter of the Sun, I can discard that, as it doesn't serve as evidence for figuring out why people are fat..
And finally when a test fails, and "a new particle is proposed" as you say.. what do you expect to be done? Do we propose we should maybe eat, and keep working for another 100 years trying to find the one particle we think may be out there, but haven't found? I don't see what the problem with doing that. If you drive to work every day for instance, and take the highway filled with traffic.. And you now start wondering if there is a faster way to get to work everyday, why would it be bad to consider another route like local roads, that don't have traffic but do have their own problem like stop lights that may slow you down? Under your mode of operation you would stay on the highway forever, trying to evade traffic, perhaps maybe figure out ways to shove people off the road, and all sorts of things, but you should never try anything else aside from the highway no matter what?
Is it anymore clear to how unsound your thoughts on this matter are?
