[Florin_Andrei]

You have to look at it in terms of a barrier. It's not impossible to break it, but it requires a lot of "oompf". The greater the violation, the greater the "oompf" required.

So, because this thing would change basically all Physics books, there's a huge burden on them to prove it beyond any shade of doubt. Forget about flirting with detection error; it should be as clear as the sun rising in the morning.

Please note that relativity, big as is was, was only at a low-to-medium level of "oompf". It didn't change quite everything, far from it.

[danielmorozoff]

Though I totally understand your point.

I would argue relativity was a tectonic shift in how we understand physics. These ideas existed before Einstein in mathematics/ geometry (Grassmann & Reimann). But they were just ideas and not a full-fledged theory.