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Source: Everyday Life In Glasgow
Is Neil deGrasse Tyson ever wrong? Neil and Chuck Nice break down all the ways he can be wrong, big moments when scientists were wrong from history, and why science itself is never wrong.
Timestamps:
00:00 – Introduction: Has Neil Ever Been Wrong?
01:23 – To Be Scientifically Wrong
06:26 – To Be Wrong and Right at the Same Time
12:47 – Retracting the First Exoplanet
16:00 – Thinking You’re Right Despite Evidence
20:43 – Einstein’s Blunder
23:00 – On Being Wrong
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National Archives Identifier: 24376
Local Identifier: 111-EF-6
https://catalog.archives.gov/id/24376
Creator(s): Department of Defense. Department of the Army. Office of the Chief Signal Officer. (9/18/1947 – 3/1/1964) (Most Recent)
From: Series: Educational Films, 1942 – 1947
Record Group 111: Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer, 1860 – 1985
This item was produced or created: 1945
Other Title(s):Educational Film, no. 6
Scope & Content: Dramatizes the destructive effects of racial and religious prejudice. Reel 1 shows a fake wrestling match and “crooked” gambling games. An agitator addresses a street crowd; he almost convinces one man in the audience until the man begins to talk to a Hungarian refugee from Germany. A Nazi speaker harangues a crowd in Germany denouncing Jews, Catholics, and Freemasons. Reel 2, a German unemployed worker joins Hitler’s Storm Troops. SS men attack Jewish and Catholic headquarters in Germany, and beat up a Jewish storekeeper. A German teacher explains Nazi racial theories; the teacher is dragged away by German soldiers.
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Phone: 301-837-3540
Email: mopix@nara.gov
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The Copernican principle states that the Earth is not in a special place in the Universe. Us humans are not privileged observers, we’re seeing the same Universe as everyone else; and the observations we make from Earth are representative observations taken from an average, random position in the Universe. It’s named after Copernicus, the mathematician who put the Sun, and not the Earth in the centre of his mathematical model of the Solar System, who was the first to “demote” Earth from a special place in the Universe. It says there is nothing unique about Earth’s position in space, and that the laws of physics are the same here as anywhere else in the Universe. It is the main philosophical and physical assumption that underlies all of cosmology – the branch of astrophysics which deals with the properties and evolution of the entire Universe – so every model and theory we have about the Universe (from the Big Bang to LambdaCDM) all of them have the Copernican Principle at their foundation. And yet, the Copernican Principle has never been fully proven, because it can’t – it’s a philosophical assumption at heart rather than a fully fledged scientific theory. But we can gather observations of the Universe that help support this massive assumption…
Hubble (1929) – https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073…
Hubble (1929) – https://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/p…
Riess et al. (1998) – https://arxiv.org/pdf/astro-ph/9805201
Fosalba et al. (2003) – https://arxiv.org/pdf/astro-ph/0307249
Scranton et al. (2003) – https://arxiv.org/pdf/astro-ph/0307335
Uzan, Clarkson & Ellis (2008) – https://arxiv.org/pdf/0801.0068
Caldwell & Stebbins (2008) – https://arxiv.org/pdf/0711.3459
Clifton, Ferreira & Land (2008) – https://arxiv.org/pdf/0807.1443
Tomita & Inoue (2009) – https://arxiv.org/pdf/0903.1541
Keenan, Barger & Cowie (2013) – https://arxiv.org/pdf/1304.2884
Kreisch et al. (2022) – https://arxiv.org/pdf/2107.02304
00:00 Introduction
03:48 Why we can’t prove the Copernican Principle
04:58 Evidence in support of the Copernican Principle
09:59 Evidence against the Copernican Principle
13:33 Bloopers
Video filmed on a Sony ⍺7 IV
Video edited by Martino Gasparrini: https://www.fiverr.com/mgs_editing
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