Intellectually you may have known this – but this video SHOWS it!
Please don’t be afraid – it’s been happening for a long time and we’re still here.
For now 😀
This is the most beautiful, mind-bending thing I have seen all week.
It makes me wonder why I never learned this in school. WTF? Is it because without three dimensional modeling it was hard to understand and make sense of? It seems like an important and significant difference from the way I learned to picture our solar system.
Yet another example of something that I learned in school, that I have to relearn later in life (or later in school). Remember when they taught us that Columbus discovered America? And then many years later we learned that Vikings traveled to the Americas first? Well, I guess it is in keeping with my theme this week of learning new information and changing my mind.
What is something that blew your mind and changed the way you see the world when you learned it?
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The video presents the solar system as moving in the galaxy as a vortex. The time frame is not presented, so it looks like we’re flying off the handle! The solar system is pretty much a flat disk, which indicates how it was formed. They won’t change their orbits anytime soon, no need to worry. As for learning history – as well as science – our educations are supposed to provide us with the tools of critical thinking and scientific analysis so that we can keep learning more.
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Fascinating… Astounding… I love science and math. Sharing…
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The universe is sort of twisted too – and I never learned about the big bang until I started teaching myself. There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
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That is amazing! Never realised!
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The visualization says it all 🙂
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Its true as well, about relearning a lot of the stuff we learned from school.
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In Terry Pratchett’s book ‘The Hogfather’, he says the following:
“All right,” said Susan. “I’m not stupid. You’re saying humans need… fantasies to make life bearable.”
REALLY? AS IF IT WAS SOME KIND OF PINK PILL? NO. HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE.
“Tooth fairies? Hogfathers? Little—”
YES. AS PRACTICE. YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES.
“So we can believe the big ones?”……
…….”Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what’s the point—”
MY POINT EXACTLY.”
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Oh dear! Now I’m really confused! Was that meant to clarify something? LOLLLLL! 😅
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Sorry Ali – I did this on my Kindle and wasn’t able to edit it properly:
YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES. ((Simple explanations)
“So we can believe the big ones?” (More accurate, complex explanations)
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Lol! Thanks Chris! I get it… and its true! But just think of all the lies we tell our kids… you can’t get bigger than Santa! Makes me feel quite guilty! My youngest boy, Mal, is 11 next week. He’s still claiming to believe (I think he doesnt want to lose the pressie!) But I’m so ready to come clean!
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LOL – Waddyamean there’s NO SANTA CLAUS???? 😀 😀 😀
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So my 12 year old tells me…
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I’ll BET he does Ali 😀 😀 😀
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