For the last few years I have been reading a lot of non-fiction especially science. Some about cosmos, some about the biological sciences, and others still about human nature.
We all know very well that negatives are really hard to prove, if not impossible. Nobody can prove, for example, a very popular quote, which goes like this "There is a teapot revolving somewhere between Earth and Mars". Now it is very hard to "scientifically" prove that there does not exist a teapot revolving somewhere between Earth and Mars; unless we have checked every object in that area and made sure that none is shaped as a teapot, but we don't need to do that. We can dismiss such claims even if we haven't explored all the possibilities ourselves or even if we don't have a PhD from MIT. We know that sufficiently large objects are spherical in shape because of gravity and smaller objects like asteroids are irregular.
As I discussed these topics with friends and family, what surprised me the most was the fact that so many people did not get what science is and/or what it does and how it works.
After quoting some form of the most clichéd argument, most of which boils down to some variety of -- "science cannot explain everything", they discard even the most rudimentary scientific facts and conclusions as if they are up for debate.
We all know very well that negatives are really hard to prove, if not impossible. Nobody can prove, for example, a very popular quote, which goes like this "There is a teapot revolving somewhere between Earth and Mars". Now it is very hard to "scientifically" prove that there does not exist a teapot revolving somewhere between Earth and Mars; unless we have checked every object in that area and made sure that none is shaped as a teapot, but we don't need to do that. We can dismiss such claims even if we haven't explored all the possibilities ourselves or even if we don't have a PhD from MIT. We know that sufficiently large objects are spherical in shape because of gravity and smaller objects like asteroids are irregular.
As my blog evolves I would like to argue for the wonders of Science & Nature; and against Pseudoscience & Superstition and hopefully make the readers think about the issues, at the very least.
Newton is attributed to saying, "If I have seen further it is only by standing on the shoulders of giants", so I too will be using the works of Men & Women from all walks of life, in an attempt to better understand this magnificent world in which we live.
Newton is attributed to saying, "If I have seen further it is only by standing on the shoulders of giants", so I too will be using the works of Men & Women from all walks of life, in an attempt to better understand this magnificent world in which we live.
Sushant
