If the world turns upside down, it's still the world, right?
I just learned that the triceratops is really a baby torosaurus - but they might be reclassifiying torosaurus as triceratops. There were 3 horns as a baby, and then it changed shape a little as it grew up. At least, this is assumed to be the case now.
In that search, I just found out brontosaurus didn't exist either!! It's really an apatosaurus. I don't know the details, but basically this guy found the skull of another dinosaur and put it with the wrong body to create the brontosaurus, when the apatosaurus existed 20 or 30 years prior.
And in an article I read, the guy was mentioning - what is happening to his childhood? First Pluto isn't a planet, and now triceratops didn't exist??
How many things have we grown up assuming to be true, that will shake up the world we're used to?
It's equally interesting to note we can't be *that* far off - if science and technology have been able to come so far, the theories, models, figures we use must mean something. Those abstract ideas have created magnificent concrete objects.
But back to the original point... my professor once said the only reason maps were created in the direction they were, is because cartographers were from the northern hemisphere. In reality, it could be entirely flipped around if someone else had been drawing it. That thought blew my mind - the entire world could be upside down! The thought makes me legitimately dizzy.
Wonder what's next... what else will turn our world upside down? There will be something - religion, evolution, exposure of secret societies - more than enough major ones in the past. What will our generation find? Dark matter?
In that search, I just found out brontosaurus didn't exist either!! It's really an apatosaurus. I don't know the details, but basically this guy found the skull of another dinosaur and put it with the wrong body to create the brontosaurus, when the apatosaurus existed 20 or 30 years prior.
And in an article I read, the guy was mentioning - what is happening to his childhood? First Pluto isn't a planet, and now triceratops didn't exist??
How many things have we grown up assuming to be true, that will shake up the world we're used to?
It's equally interesting to note we can't be *that* far off - if science and technology have been able to come so far, the theories, models, figures we use must mean something. Those abstract ideas have created magnificent concrete objects.
But back to the original point... my professor once said the only reason maps were created in the direction they were, is because cartographers were from the northern hemisphere. In reality, it could be entirely flipped around if someone else had been drawing it. That thought blew my mind - the entire world could be upside down! The thought makes me legitimately dizzy.
Wonder what's next... what else will turn our world upside down? There will be something - religion, evolution, exposure of secret societies - more than enough major ones in the past. What will our generation find? Dark matter?