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The first question in every case is "What work has already been done on this question?" If you don't investigate the history, people say you are "reinventing the wheel." If you investigate the history you can sometimes notice a mistake that was made, or a possibility that was never checked. For example, the Michelson-Morley experiment is considered one foundation of modern science because it demonstrated there is no "aether" to conduct light, BUT nobody ever turned the experiment sideways to test the effect of gravity on light.
Modern astronomy is a mess because astronomers don't keep track of the history of what they know. Someone proposes a hypothesis, people hear about it so much they assume that it is a proven fact, and the result is that most of what we think we know about the universe is based on fictions.
Example:
Big bang is implied by
Receding galaxies, which are implied by
Doppler shift, which is caused by
Motion away from us, which is assumed from
Red shifted light
So we have this remarkable train of logic all based on a single phenomenon and an assumption. If that assumption is wrong then most of what we think we know about the universe ain't so. Well, Doppler effect is not the only cause of red shift.
The Oort cloud is another example. A fellow named Oort was investigating some observations and he needed more mass to balance his equations. So he simply assumed that there was a cloud of planetoids outside the orbit of Pluto, and everybody else accepted that as scientific fact. Then he needed more mass, so he did it again: he invented Dark Matter. And again, the whole world firmly believes that dark matter is a proven fact.
Astronomers want so badly to believe that they refuse to investigate the history of their science, and they insult people who point out the weaknesses in their logic.
By the time Egypt became a world power—the first mentioned in the Bible—scientific knowledge had progressed to the point that the Egyptians were able to construct giant pyramids. The design of these pyramids, says The New Encyclopædia Britannica, “was successfully achieved only after much experimentation, in which great engineering problems were solved.” Solving these problems required a substantial knowledge of mathematics and indicated the existence of certain related scientific skills.
scientific curiosity was not limited to just the Egyptians. The Babylonians, besides developing a calendar, set up numbering and measuring systems. In the Far East, the Chinese civilization made valuable scientific contributions. And the early forefathers of the Incas and the Mayas in the Americas developed an advanced civilization that later surprised European explorers, who hardly expected such achievements by “backward natives.”
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