Understanding Universe

Teachers have told us that the Earth is round like a ball. Scientists have advised us that the Earth is round. Astronauts who have been to the Moon have instructed us that the Earth is spherical. They took pictures. And yet, when you walk outside, the whole lot appears completely flat. What's the deal? Are teachers trying to trick us? Are the pix from the space faux? And is there any manner to even know for yourself? I imply, except you come to be an astronaut and go to space, it appears not possible to ever recognize this for yourself.   " How do we know the  Earth is round?"

Let me share with you an interesting incident which I read in  the renowned book "A Brief History of Time" by Stephen Hawkings . When Bertrand Russell was tending to a social event He convinced people that the earth revolves around the sun and then the sun revolves around the cluster of stars: galaxy. At the end of the lecture, an old lady ridiculed him by saying that the world is a flat plate supported on the back of a turtle. Bertrand cleverly asked ' what is the tortoise standing on?'She replied its turtles all the way down! If you find the concept of earth on the back of a turtle a ridiculous one, let me tell you that there are even more absurd theories, for instance: earth on the back of elephants standing on the turtle or the earth on the back of a whale and even on the horns of a bull!  The story is entertaining, yet Stephen posed an exceptionally convincing question. We would all find this image of level, flat earth on the rear of turtles a strange and peculi...

 Lately, I have been rambling on about  Greek natural philosophers. They were people with particular speculations, and we have records about them. Yet, they weren't the only individuals making information. India had major metropolitan communities, brought together authoritative states, and muddled mystical customs. In Indian sacred texts, a great many divine beings and evil spirits made ceaseless conflict, obliterating and reproducing reality itself! Old Indian scholars didn't lead to a similar normal way of thinking as the Greeks  Why do I wanna discuss India here?   India presents an advantageous contradiction to Greece since information making in India was indivisible from a long strict religious practice, supported by the state, and centered in on applications. Simultaneously, the two districts traded thoughts with one another and the more extensive world. Today we'll plunge into two or three significant parts of the Indian regular way of thinking, fundamental wa...