Did people believe albert Einstein's theory of relativity was true?

Answer 1

Basically yes. The theory was so revolutionary that some people had a hard time believing it, but as experiments were done, it became almost a certainty. A word here about believing stuff in science. The non-scientific public believes that scientists have some invenstment in a particular point of view. For example, scientist believe that there are no Trilobytes alive today, since none has been seen for 250 million years. If one were found alive in the deep trenches off some island: The general public would believe that scientists would suffer a collapse of their faith. Scientists would say "COOL...", because faith is NEVER the issue, and new discoveries that shake up the field are welcomed. Is "Global Warming" caused by humans "real"? Maybe, probably, but no scientist would care to vote on it. Should SOMETHING be done? That's not a scientific question. Was Relativity "true". It really looks that way. No scientist would use the word "true".

Answer 2

Yes, Einstein's theory of relativity was eventually widely accepted by the scientific community after its initial proposal, as it provided explanations for various physical phenomena that were previously unexplained. Over time, experimental evidence, such as the confirmed prediction of gravitational lensing and the measurement of time dilation, supported the validity of the theory.