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When Copernicus proposed heliocentrism in 1543, it was actually less accurate than Ptolemy's geocentric model - a system refined over 1,400 years with epicycles precisely tuned to match observed planetary positions. It took another 70 years before Kepler, working from Tycho Brahe's unprecedentedly precise observations, replaced Copernicus’s circles with ellipses - finally making heliocentrism empirically superior. Terence Tao's point is that science needs a high temperature setting. If we only fund and follow what's most state of the art today, we kill the ideas that might need decades of work to surpass some overall plateau.

Evolution of the most popular First Names in France along the years (1946-2011) - boys edition







i am always suspicious of people who claim to be smart but are miserable. if they really were that smart, they would have figured out how to live a joyous life.



Район Отрадное в Москве. Улицу Хачатуряна сегодня перекрыли.



Even China Proper is larger than the Qin Empire, the so-called first unified Chinese dynasty.



этой бездарнейшей левой пропаганде дали 6 оскаров




X is unrepresentative of the real world. People really don't care about your racism.
















