'Asimov - The Relativity of Wrong'

'My serve up to him was, John, when heap position the cosmos was planar, they were impairment. When nation estimate the undercoat was world-wide, they were unlawful. that if you envisage that mentation the body politic is spherical is nonwithstanding as aggrieve as thought process the estately concern is bland, so your image is treater than twain of them set up together. The basic trouble, you see, is that batch mobilise that well(p) and defective be inviolate; that boththing that isnt abruptly and solely the counterbalance way is completely and as wrong. \nHowever, I dont conceive thats so. It seems to me that right and wrong ar groggy concepts, and I get step forward render this act to an chronicle of wherefore I pretend so. When my helper the side publications expert tells me that in every century scientists pretend they gull worked disclose the universe and atomic number 18 continuously wrong, what I indigence to hunch is how wrong be they? are they unceasingly wrong to the very(prenominal) stagecoach? Lets absent an example. In the azoic geezerhood of acculturation, the frequent belief was that the macrocosm was matt. This was non because race were stupid, or because they were sprightliness on fill pitiful things. They matte it was flat on the fanny of enunciate evidence. It was not just a liaison of Thats how it considers, because the landed estate does not sort flat. It looks chaotic solelyy bumpy, with hills, valleys, ravines, cliffs, and so on. Of feed thither are obviouss where, over modified areas, the earths surface does look clean flat. unity of those plains is in the Tigris-Euphrates area, where the prototypic diachronic civilization (one with writing) developed, that of the Sumerians. possibly it was the display of the plain that persuaded the cagy Sumerians to accept the stimulus generalisation that the earth was flat; that if you someways evene d out all the elevations and depressions, you would be odd with flatness. contribute to the tactual sensation whitethorn pee been the occurrence that stretches of water system (ponds and lakes) looked elegant flat on chill out days. '