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Edited by Krishnas Prophet:
12/13/2017 8:22:47 AM
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25% of Americans Are Smart Enough to Know That The Earth Does NOT Go Around The Sun
It is statistics such as these:
https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2014/02/what-americans-dont-know-about-science/283864/
That give me hope for our future generations. The scientific ignorance of the past 300 years is not so strong as the mainstream media would like us to think. As this simple survey shows, a sobering number of people still know how to use their minds when confronted with a chance to regurgitate science "facts".
I usually talk about science in a way that makes it seem like it is a permanent evil that our generation will never live to overcome. But through the intellectual integrity of movements like Flat Earth Theory, it is just barely possible that we could see the end of the scientific delusion in our lifetime. People aren't the mindless sheep we often take them for. And while studies like this display these facts as a wake up call to mainstream educators (one that should frighten those who base their power on the illusion of scientific dogma), it is cause for hope for those who see through the facade of scientific armchair sophistry and parlor room illusions.
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7 RepliesWhile the observational agreement with general relativity is quite the feat of modern science, I will say that geocentric models propose some pretty interesting mathematics. Like, some very smart people throughout history came up with some very clever mathematics in order to reconcile for things that don’t make much sense in the geocentric model, like apparent retrograde motion, and the phases of Venus. It’s funny to me, because Kepler’s geometric argument involves far simpler mathematics than that of the epicycles and such of a geocentric model. Despite its simplicity, scientists had overlooked it for many years due to the basic assumption being made. What’s even more amazing is that you can literally get to Kepler’s mathematics from a geocentric model’s mathematics so long as you rid yourself of the dependence of an Earth-centric orbit. So instead of resolving the simpler formalism, scientists pushed on with an overly complex model because of their stubbornness. That’s what I think is going on in modern Physics right now actually. We’re so god damn in love with how great the path integral is (and it is pretty -blam!-ing great) that we abide by this almost unrealistic model that meets expectations but leaves questions open that need not be open. -blam!- String Theory and Ed Witten.
