system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
[Star Trek] The Vulcans were hundreds of years ahead of humanity so why did the Vulcan Science Academy refuse to believe in time travel?
gpt
Because they hadn't seen any evidence of time travel and nothing in their research picked up any inconsistencies that warranted further investigation. Kind of like how Maxwell's equations had something weird that led to the discovery that speed of light in vacuum being the same in every reference frame and led people to discover relativity. An example of a wrong theory that might not have any measurable contradicting evidence is the conservation of mass. Two protons in helium nuclei have slightly less mass than that of two free  protons but the difference is so small, most measurements can't detect it unless you are specifically looking for it.