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Here
is a strange meteorological fact that is there for everyone to see in the
daily TV reports. Not until we see it graphed, however, does the
temperature cliff become truly obvious.
Much of the astounding
advance in scientific knowledge during the past several centuries has occurred
because someone thought of some new way of looking. But the new concepts
seen through the new ways of looking have, more often than not, not
been
as easy to see as that cliff in the plot of record low temperatures.
The new ways of looking are more subtle. The prescientific misconception,
the "missed concept," persistently and pervasively remains.
And so . . .
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Mathematics and physics remain perpetually
obscure.
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The simplest math and physics is often
the most difficult.
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The misperceptions, misunderstandings,
and pseudoscience which have been replaced by science remains almost as
widespread as it was centuries ago.
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Things are often not what they seem.
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Science is looking past the edges of (easy)
human comprehension.
EXPLORE THE EDGE
of human comprehension.
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