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by croon
1588 days ago
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> I'm sure that is the same reason why many once people believed the earth was flat, or that the earth was at the center of the universe. Observably at the time, the earth was flat, and then you got better ways to observe it, and it was spherical. Then you got even better ways, and now it's an oblate spheroid. That doesn't negate the science used before, but it gets more correct each iteration. Asimov described this wonderfully in a letter, below: https://hermiene.net/essays-trans/relativity_of_wrong.html > It's very arrogant to think that "the science" and "the facts" are always right. Any more arrogant than thinking "the science" and "the facts" are wrong? |
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