Do you have something in common procedures used by scientists, poets and storytellers to reach eagerly seeking the truth?
One of the greatest mysteries of mankind is to find out when and how it originated the universe. For thousands of years, the most powerful minds have been devoted to this task with amazing results, many of which appear to work of the imagination. Seem, I say, because they are actually the product of technical and scientific procedures carried out with precision.
few days ago I read a fascinating book ( The challenge of the universe Telmo Fernandez and Benjamin Montesinos) which tells how from the time of the earliest civilizations arose this challenge and how the answers were varied according to the beliefs religious and the vicissitudes of Science. Many of these revelations were in very poor conditions and when there it had the right technology to examine what was going on very long distances from Earth. For example, Aristarchus of Samos had proposed something similar to the heliocentric system 2000 years before Copernicus did.
time is extremely paradoxical that have remained in effect the 'truths' scientific and experienced changes
knowledge accumulated throughout history. From the stage of primitive observatories and calendar to the era of infrared telescopes, knowledge has been compressed so that in the past three decades, spoke of accelerating human development. If prior information is doubling every 20 years now meets every 4 or 5. Some scientists believe that due to the run rate at which science and technology, soon the pace of knowledge production is much lower.
Information on the origin of the universe begins with the myths about the divine origin of the stars and comes to complex explanations about the constant of radiation, black holes, matter and dark energy, the Big Bang the Big Crunch and other explanations truly amazing. In my view, in all these cases and at all times in history, scientists have followed a path similar to that of the poets and writers: from imagination to reality.
Aristarchus argued that the earth revolved around the sun when Galileo had not invented the telescope. Eratosthenes calculated the distance to the moon with astonishing accuracy when the geometry and physics were emerging. Copernicus proposed his heliocentric theory where Newton had not discovered the Universal Law of Gravity. Albert Einstein said that time and space are not absolute before it is found by infrared telescopes in the light of supernovae reach the earth when they have already been dead for several million years.
For poets and storytellers the road is more or less like: Dante Alighieri Christian proposed a hypothesis regarding the penalty to who do evil before the natural sciences warned us about the destruction of the environment, Jules Verne imagined a vessel that could reach the moon long before it was certain that a rocket could penetrate with force and sufficient fuel to the limit of Earth's gravity, George Orwell wrote a novel about the control of the companies before the Internet became an effective way to keep the attention of humans.
is assumed that for the invention of their realities, poets and writers must have their heads far away from their feet, and to create the sophisticated principles and universal laws scientists have stated very well their feet land. Actually not so true. To get to imagine the world 1984, George Orwell had to know very well the scientific and social reality of their time, while to admit the possibility of travel to the future scientists of today have had to resort to the extraordinary strength their creativity to propose the thesis of the "worms of time." Science and literature are more alike than we boast.
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