Why are We Teaching Science Before History and Philosophy of Science?




It couldn't be more wrong than this. We have been lied to about the nature of reality. In the schools, we learn that Sun is a star and all planets orbit around the earth in nice orbits and the sun is in the middle. Look at picture of solar system. This is completely wrong. THIS IS NOT SPACE SCIENCE AT ALL.






In the last decade, scientists have learnt that our sun moves around the milkyway galaxy at a speed of more than 220 km/sec or 828,000 km/hr and the entire milky way galaxy moves through space at 630 km/sec according to latest science calculations. We do not know exact figures yet. Everything moves in the universe.


There's No Such Thing As Proof or Absolute Fact in The Scientific World - There's Only Evidence. As we gather more evidence through scientific methodology, our perceptions change. Gravity may not exist. Is gravity real? May be the gravity is the effect of another universe with anti-matter.  How do we know there are only 8 planets? There might be a planet with extreme  elongated orbit which astronomers haven't discovered yet. Most of the current text books in the world teach science as some merely facts. All science is merely the current best model and there are no absolute facts in science. Science is impermanent. It is, by definition, in constant flux. It is the greatest thing humans have ever discovered. 

Science is not a body of knowledge or facts, it is a way of thinking. So why do we teach it as a subject when it is not merely a subject. Teaching the history of scientific thinking and philosophy is of science should be started in middle school rather than at Ph.D stage. 

IF AT ALL I AM LEARNING ANYTHING, I WANT TO KNOW WHAT I AM LEARNING FIRST. Time to rewrite textbooks?


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