Science is about making hypotheses, using experimentation and observation to test whether a theory or idea is valid. It also involves trying to see if the theory can be proven false. So when we are told that the “science is settled”, that is an egotistical statement.
We have countless examples of what humanity believed to be accurate, turned out to be wrong.
In the 300s A.D., the Egyptian astronomer Ptolemy stated that the earth was the centre of the universe. This was the Geocentric theory. It was not challenged until the Polish astronomer Copernicus through scientific measurements, established the Heliocentric idea; that the sun was the centre of the solar system and the earth revolved around it.
Then at the beginning of the 1600s, Italian astronomer Galileo discovered through his telescopic observations that the earth revolved around the sun, confirming Copernicus’ theory. He was condemned and put under house arrest for daring to challenge church dogma that the world was the centre of all things. So Galileo was cancelled––sound familiar?
At the turn of the 20th century, many scientists thought that all that was to be known was known. However, a few brilliant scientists, including Einstein, discovered the wave-particle theory, which led to the science of Quantum Physics or Quantum Mechanics. This described how matter behaved at the subatomic level. Sometimes particles like electrons were not at all particles but waves of superimposed probability. At other times, they behave like particles, mainly when observed. This developed into the bizarre realization that the fundamental basis of matter is not real until it’s observed.
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