Too glorious to summarise, just read it.
Originally shared by Yonatan Zunger
There is a new theory making the rounds in Flat Earth circles. (Squares?) The forests you see are not real forests; the true forests are long dead, and the things which we think are mountains are actually their ruins.
There's a marvelous article here about how such a theory spreads, and its curious and somewhat mad beauty. (OK, strike "somewhat") It's a fascinating way to start your day.
h/t Steven Flaeck
http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/09/flat-earth-truthers/499322/
Squares indeed.
ReplyDeleteYou know, when I want my brain bent that way I go talk to friends who study general relativity or quantum relativity. 300℅ less painful.
ReplyDeletewhy read flat earth "theories"?
ReplyDeleteArticles like this probably feed into our cultural narratives about challenges to textbook theory. We should perhaps try harder to seek out the best challenges to our beliefs that we can find. Instead, we seem to relish the certainty we experience when we point to the most ridiculous. The latter cannot sub in for the former.
ReplyDeleteJack Martinelli Amusement, mostly.
ReplyDeleteMad as a box of frogs.
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