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Yes, and children are still taught that Bernoulli's principle is the reason why planes can fly. There are a lot of interesting physics misconceptions that have
by swernli 16y ago
Yes, and children are still taught that Bernoulli's principle is the reason why planes can fly. There are a lot of interesting physics misconceptions that have become widely accepted, but because physics (and perhaps science in general) is not a major focus of our culture, no one really worries about these misconceptions being out there.
Well, no one except the physicists :).
- stoney 16y agoI have heard so many different explanations of why planes fly that I doubt that anyone really understands it. There was a memorable moment towards the end of my engineering degree, when after being given yet another explanation of why planes fly a classmate shouted out, "I think we've heard enough theories about whether planes can fly". Apparently chemists encounter a similar thing when studying chemical bonds - every new academic year you are told that what you learned the previous year was such a gross simplification that it's basically wrong.