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Monday Jul 20, 2020
Monday Jul 20, 2020
Science seeks to ascertain facts through experimental observation. However, paradigm shifts can occur in science, markedly changing our very reality. How do these scientific revolutions occur? Discussed in this episode: Thomas Kuhn's landmark 1962 book, "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions," the scientific method, how scientific revolutions happen, prerequisites to scientific revolutions, characteristics of revolutionary works in science, Nicolaus Copernicus' theory of heliocentrism, Galilean versus Aristotelian dynamics, Isaac Newton's theory of gravity, why paradigm shifts fail to occur immediately after new ground-breaking theories, science versus truth, and the lasting effects of scientific revolutions.
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