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Does this means our Big Bang generation will be mocked like the Earth-is-flat believers?

username3 16y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myth_of_the_Flat_Earth http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myth_of_the_Flat_Earth The myth of the Flat Earth is the modern misconception that the prevailing cosmological view during the Middle Ages saw the Earth as flat, instead of spherical.[1][2] During the early Middle Ages, virtually all scholars maintained the spherical viewpoint first expressed by the Ancient Greeks. By the 14th century, belief in a flat earth among the educated was essentially dead. Flat-Earth models were in fact held at earlier (pre-medieval) times, before the spherical model became commonly accepted in Hellenistic astronomy.[3]
- poundy 16y ago
  Very interesting. I was one of those people with the misconception. How did the ancient greeks think that we were glued onto the planet? Gravity was something Newton defined? Am I having another misconception?
  - joshuacc 16y ago
    The prevailing model of the universe at the time was a sphere with the Earth at the middle. In this model, the term "gravity" and "weight" meant something like "the natural level of this object". Rocks had "low" weight, thus falling to the ground and fire had "high" weight, thus rising to the sky. Being composed of "earth" and "water", we stuck to the surface of the Earth because that was our natural place. A lot of this model was carried over into Medieval science, but it changed over time to adapt to new discoveries, until it finally broke around the time of Galileo & Copernicus. C.S. Lewis wrote a very interesting little work on the Medieval worldview called The Discarded Image that goes into some of this. He was writing mostly as a literary historian, but covers the scientific understanding to the extent that it informed literature. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Discarded_Image http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Discarded_Image
username3 16y ago
Mocked like the Earth-is-flat-believers believers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myth_of_the_Flat_Earth http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myth_of_the_Flat_Earth The myth of the Flat Earth is the modern misconception that the prevailing cosmological view during the Middle Ages saw the Earth as flat, instead of spherical.[1][2] During the early Middle Ages, virtually all scholars maintained the spherical viewpoint first expressed by the Ancient Greeks. By the 14th century, belief in a flat earth among the educated was essentially dead. Flat-Earth models were in fact held at earlier (pre-medieval) times, before the spherical model became commonly accepted in Hellenistic astronomy.[3]

poundy 16y ago
Very interesting. I was one of those people with the misconception. How did the ancient greeks think that we were glued onto the planet? Gravity was something Newton defined? Am I having another misconception?
- joshuacc 16y ago
  The prevailing model of the universe at the time was a sphere with the Earth at the middle. In this model, the term "gravity" and "weight" meant something like "the natural level of this object". Rocks had "low" weight, thus falling to the ground and fire had "high" weight, thus rising to the sky. Being composed of "earth" and "water", we stuck to the surface of the Earth because that was our natural place. A lot of this model was carried over into Medieval science, but it changed over time to adapt to new discoveries, until it finally broke around the time of Galileo & Copernicus. C.S. Lewis wrote a very interesting little work on the Medieval worldview called The Discarded Image that goes into some of this. He was writing mostly as a literary historian, but covers the scientific understanding to the extent that it informed literature. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Discarded_Image http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Discarded_Image

username3 16y ago

Mocked like the Earth-is-flat-believers believers.