Cognitive load

[Richmond Mathewson]

On 4/23/17 6:01 pm, Keith Martin via use-livecode wrote:
> On 23 Apr 2017, at 15:14, Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode wrote:
>
>> Until about 1600 is was a "well-known fact" that the world was flat
>
> Heh. Nice analogy.
> Except that even this fact itself isn't true!

Very few facts ultimately turn out to be true; face it, we live in a 
shaky universe.

Richmond.

> Most educated people much further back than that believed that the 
> Earth was round. Copernicus (1473-1543) didn't cause consternation 
> through refuting the flatness of the world, he proposed that the world 
> revolved around the sun rather than the other way around. And this 
> wasn't the first time for that concept: Aristarchus of Samos (approx 
> 310-230 BC) originally presented the heliocentric concept, which 
> relies inherently on the Earth being a sphere. In fact (uh-oh! ;) the 
> flat-Earth idea has been only patchily believed for far longer than 
> people generally realise.
> Which makes it even more mind-numbingly strange that people think this 
> today. But then, who in their right mind would look to a basketball 
> player for scientific information?
>
> :D
>
> k
>
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