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Science Is Not a Set of Facts; It’s a Process of Learning More About Our Universe

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At left is an interesting thought exercise.  Here’s everything I can think of, and it’s not much.  When I was in elementary school in the early 1960s, it was believed that:

The main types of rocks: sedimentary, metamorphic, and igneous, had been in place and remained the same since the formation of the earth.  Now we have the “rock cycle,” where rock compounds are known to be continually changing form over very long periods of geologic time.

Every atom in our bodies and elsewhere on our planet is the result of the explosion of stars somewhere in the universe.  As Neil DeGrasse Tyson puts it, “You are in the universe, and the universe is in you.”

Science Is Not a Set of Facts; It’s a Process of Learning More About Our Universe

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