That which Is Accepted as Knowledge Todays Is Sometimes Discarded Tomorrow

“But you are rather waiting to hear from me how it occurred to me to venture to conceive any motion of the earth, against the traditional opinion of astronomers and almost against common sense…” (39).

Through wonder and complicated thinking Einstein gave a strong argument on how space and time could be curved. By Einstein creating this theory he completely altered the way we could think of space and time. Einstein pictured space as a three-dimensional version of a thin rubber sheet. If you put a heavy object on the sheet, it makes a dent, and therefore an object's path would be affected by that dent. So, planets orbit the sun because “the space around the sun is curved in the 2-D equivalent of a funnel or basin”.( http://burro.astr.cwru.edu/stu/20th_people_einstein.html) “The curvature of space results in the effects of gravity. This notion of curved space becomes more tangible . . . occurs because its curvature of space”. (http://www.fi.edu/learn/case files/einstein/curved.html) Einstein introduced this special theory of relativity because it dealt only with the special case of motion in frames of reference that are neither increasing nor decreasing to the viewer. In other words, “the frames of the reference are . . . a consistent speed in a straight line”. (Jake Goldberg pg.47) Einstein also changed how we now think about gravity itself! He came up with his own theory of gravity as well, called Equivalence Principle. “Einstein said that when he was sitting in a chair in the patent office at Bern when all of a sudden a thought occurred to me: 'If a person falls freely he will not feel his own weight.' I was

For years the Earth was thought to be flat. The groups of people that created and developed this theory were heavily influenced by religion and cultural practices that were prominent at the time. The theory was a way to explain the Earth and it made sense in the explanations people could create. After many years of scientific exploration and technological development this theory was disproven. The new theory was that Earth is a sphere. However, even after the observations of a spherical Earth the flat Earth theory is still around and widely believed today. This theory is different depending on the group of people present. According to Chris Fleming, “Different cultures at different times have posited a staggeringly diverse array of

As innumerable photographs from space can bear witness to, Earth is round—the "Blue Marble," as space travelers have tenderly named it. Appearances, be that as it may, can bamboozle. Planet Earth is not, actually, impeccably round. This is not to state Earth is level. A long time before Columbus cruised the sea blue, Aristotle and other old Greek researchers suggested that Earth was round. This depended on various perceptions, for example, the way that withdrawing ships seemed littler as they cruised away as well as appeared to sink into the

Columbus’ postulation that the world was not flat because any educated person in that time new that the world was round.

We have learned in basic K-12 schooling that the Earth is spherical in shape. The earliest recording of this concept was c. 6th century BCE in ancient

Ignorance tends to play a big role when it comes to claiming knowledge. Often times people think that the amount of knowledge they have is enough and that it is unnecessary to expand it. In regard to people who think they know something when they don’t, Socrates says, “For they do not

The earth is flat, and lightning never strikes the same place twice are common scientific misconceptions. In most cases, these misunderstandings are relatively harmless. In other cases, they are critical.

In the book written by Nonaka (2000), presented a summary of the ideas that underlie the notion of knowledge: (1) Knowledge is justified true believe; (2) Knowledge is something that is explicit (tacit knowledge); (3) knowledge creation effectively dependent on the context that allows the creation of occurrence; (4) knowledge creation involves five main steps are: a). Sharing knowledge explicitly (tacit knowledge), b) created the concept, c). Justifying concepts, d). Build a prototype, and e). Do the dissemination of knowledge.

classical antiquity that the Earth was a mere point in a vast encompassing Cosmos, but no one had

As time past, astronomers began to move away from the geocentric model and began to create a heliocentric model. This model stated that everything in the universe orbited the Sun, including the Earth. The planets had an elliptical orbit. Earth actually rotated on its axis once a day. The heliocentric model also explained the phases of Venus and why Jupiter's moons stayed with the planet.

I would like to start this off by saying the idea of a flat Earth is the stupidest thing I've ever heard, and if you were to truly believe that the Earth is flat you might actually be a moron. Most people are to say that christians and Christianity started the idea of a flat world. But there were only “A handful of so-called intellectual Scholars throughout the centuries, claiming to represent the church, To held to a flat Earth.” The majority of these people were look down upon and ignored by the church. But their writings still somehow made it into earlier history books as being the “Official Christian viewpoint”.

On December 30, 2016 and then, the National Aeronautics and Space Agency (Lapan) held a discussion with the adherents of the earth is flat. Pieces of discussion can be seen in the following video.

In the New Theory of the Earth, William Whiston’s scientific explanation of creation and the effects of the Fall on the earth were the result of comets. Winston believed that a comet was captured into the sun’s gravitational pull and orbited at the appropriate distance away from the sun (Olson, 170). This comet had created earth from its atmosphere. The earth’s axis did not tilt. It had an annual revolution around the sun meaning that one day would equal to one year (Olson, 172). Since the earth had an elliptical orbit “there were no seasons” (46). However, this change with the Fall of man. A second comet collided with earth causing the end of paradise, the change in earth’s shape to an oblate spheroid, the change in earth’s orbit to a concentric

The Copernican Revolution involves the exchange of a “geocentric” worldview to a “heliocentric” view and is inseparably linked to the “scientific revolution” of the seventeenth century movement that represents a renewal of all scientific knowledge of the time. Contrary to popular belief, the “idea that the Earth was round” was written by many ancient Greek texts, and was supported by many philosophers such as Aristotle, Plato, Pythagoras, Archimedes, Eratosthenes and Ptolemy, among others. (Cohen, 30) During the