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Edited by The Cellar Door:
9/18/2015 3:35:43 AM
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A quick thought about Astronomy.
This is a serious post. If you don't know how to add to a discussion or say anything except for spam, please just ignore this post.
We are on a [i]very[/i] small planet, which rotates about its axis, an axis which moves (look up:precession), while rotating about our star, while rotating about the middle of the Galaxy, in a galaxy which moves about other galaxies, galaxies which are gravitationally bound in a cluster, which moves about all the other clusters in the universe; all the while gravity bends light, light takes time to travel to us, and the expansion of space has been accelerating for the past 5 billion years.
We have absolutely horrible vision of the universe. Countless calculations have to be made to correct for error when observing space. [b]What If we're missing something?[/b]
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4 RepliesEdited by Kamots: 9/18/2015 5:13:11 AMThe question isn't so much of "What if?" as it is just "What?" If there is anything we can take from history, it is that there will probably be no end to the search for knowledge. It would be ridiculous and, to be frank, quite irresponsible to ever take a position of "we're done here", regardless of scale or importance. Beyond that, it is quite likely impossible that we are right about our vision of the universe. This is especially the case when we haven't really come to any consensus of a vision yet at all. It's always sad to see the death of the love for adventure in people. To make a (perhaps not wholly correct) analogy, we should follow the example of the shark. Keep moving, or you will die. This death may not be immediately physical, but it is death nonetheless. Even backwards is better than nowhere at all.
