At that meeting, Eddington publicly ridiculed Chandrasekhar’s limit, defending the old guard’s belief that stars couldn’t just collapse. History proved Chandra right, of course. But I see it not as a clash of ideas, but of an institution protecting its own sense of order. In our faculty meetings, I watch brilliant young researchers shrink when a senior professor scoffs at their “impractical” models—the same resistance, just different equations. The stubborn machine isn’t in the factory; it’s in the committee room, and it crushes futures just as surely.
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