Knowledge is belief in facts. Faith is belief in your choice.
Check out the Article HERE
Here’s one I remember specifically being taught in elementary:
We only use 10% of our brains
“The myth arose as early as 1907, propagated by multiple sources advocating the power of self-improvement and tapping into each person’s unrealised latent abilities,” say Vreeman and Carroll. “The many functions of the brain are highly localised, with different tasks allocated to different anatomical regions. Detailed probing of the brain has failed to identify the ‘non-functioning’ 90%.”
I’ve always been skeptical of this one.
Shaving causes hair to grow back faster or coarser
This theory may go some way toward sustaining the multimillion-pound waxing industry. But it, too, is an optical illusion: when hair first grows after being shaved, it has a blunt edge on top, which gets worn away over time and results in the fine taper of long hair. Also, the sun naturally bleaches hair over time so hair that is newly emerged may seem darker but is, in fact, no darker than any other new hair growth.
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I’ve taken several (introductory level) physics classes in college, and I always think its funny when the teachers have to shift from one set of rules to another. For example, when talking about the large expanses of space, Einstein’s Theory of Relativity works well. When talking about a car slamming into a brick wall, Newton’s laws of motion are invoked. When explaining the motion of electrons around a nucleus, Quantum Physics “comes statistically close” to a clarification.
But some dude who surfs in the summer and snowboards in the winter has just had his Theory of Everything published in a scientific journal. Garrett Lisi is his name, and his paper titled “An Exceptionally Simple Theory of Everything” is what some scientists are calling “The Holy Grail of Physics.”
The competing Theory of Everything is String Theory. I’ve watched the entire 3 hour PBS Nova special on String Theory called “The Elegant Universe” (some parts fascinating, some parts excruciatingly boring) and comprehend enough about String Theory to hope it’s not true. It has like 11 dimensions and alternate universes, not to mention the hardest math on earth to explain.
Garrett’s theory, on the other hand, has the traditional 4 dimensions (3 for space and 1 for time), and can be explained by (or is contained within?) that geometric shape at the top called the E8 pattern. That said it’s still REALLY far from an intuitive Theory of Everything that Homer Simpson could understand. It’s primarily based in mathematics (like most of physics). Iabervon explains it ok here on Slashdot. The original article I bumped into (where I also swiped the image) is found here on Telegraph.co.uk.
