I get what you’re saying, but you also wouldn’t say it was discovered in 1966 as it was simply theorized without any direct evidence. A lot of things are theorized before they are actually discovered to exist.
That’s what discovery is: realizing that something exists and describing it.
You’re talking about creating, using, verifying, observing, etc. There are lots of things Einstein discovered that we are still verifying. It doesn’t mean he didn’t “discover” general relativity.
I get what you’re saying, but you also wouldn’t say it was discovered in 1966 as it was simply theorized without any direct evidence. A lot of things are theorized before they are actually discovered to exist.
That’s what discovery is: realizing that something exists and describing it.
You’re talking about creating, using, verifying, observing, etc. There are lots of things Einstein discovered that we are still verifying. It doesn’t mean he didn’t “discover” general relativity.