{"id":413,"date":"2014-05-09T15:47:14","date_gmt":"2014-05-09T14:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.manual4life.org\/en\/?page_id=413"},"modified":"2014-05-09T16:04:31","modified_gmt":"2014-05-09T15:04:31","slug":"examples-history-sience","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/delevensschool.org\/en\/examples-history-sience\/","title":{"rendered":"Some examples from the history of sience"},"content":{"rendered":"

Archimedes:<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0 (born 287 v. Chr.)
\nWhile taking a bath, he realised that his body became lighter.
\nThis is how he discovered the upward pressure, which a body experiences when it is immersed in a liquid or a gas.
\nHis research resulted in \u201cArchimedes\u2019 Law\u201d with a formula with which this upward pressure can be calculated.<\/p>\n

Galileo Galilei<\/strong> (born 1564) and Newton<\/strong> (born 1643):
\n<\/span>They studied gravity and freefall acceleration (among other things).
\nBy means of observation and measurements they produced formulae with which calculations can still be made to the present day.<\/p>\n

Gregor Mendel:<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0 (born 1822)
\nHe studied heredity on the basis of experiments with peas among other things.
\nAs a result of his observations he described the hereditary characteristics: the congenital differences and similarities between successive generations.
\nMendel published the results of his research in 1865.
\nAmong other things, he had discovered that certain characteristics sometimes skip a generation, i.e. for example, that a child can possess characteristics inherited from a grandparent, which are not found in the parents.
\nBecause this was in contradiction to theories that Darwin had published seven years earlier, Mendel\u2019s work was not accepted by science.
\nOnly in 1901 were Mendels genetics \u201crediscovered\u201d and they are now known as \u201cMendel\u2019s Laws\u201d.<\/p>\n

In the end, science accepts the results of Mendel\u2019s research as laws that are established in nature, even though they are not in agreement with the theory of evolution.
\nOn this basis it can no longer be claimed that the theory of evolution has been proven. On the contrary, viewed scientifically, the theory of evolution should be rejected.<\/p>\n

Dmitri Mendeljev:<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0 (born 1834)
\nMendeljev established a periodicity in the characteristics, when chemical elements (hydrogen, oxygen, iron, sulphur, helium etc.) are classified according to rising atomic mass. He provided empty spaces in his classification for elements that had not yet been discovered at that time, such as scandium, gallium, germanium, and he predicted their characteristics in each case.
\nThese missing elements were indeed discovered later.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Louis Pasteur:<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0\u00a0 (born 1848)
\nPasteur became involved in the discussion about the \u201cGeneratio Spontanea\u201d, which is about whether organisms can emerge spontaneously from lifeless organisms or from dead matter.<\/p>\n

In 1668 Francesco Redi demonstrated that only living flies were responsible for the fly maggots that appeared out of corpses. He filled large pots with meat and put lids on a couple of them.
\nMaggots only \u201cemerged\u201d from the pots without lids.<\/p>\n

In spite of this, until Louis Pasteur\u2019s discovery in 1860, it was believed that bacteria produced themselves. However, Louis Pasteur\u2019s research demonstrated that \u201cnot-life\u201d cannot generate life, and that only living beings can produce life. He carried out an experiment whereby he warmed soup up, and after heating there was no more sign of the Generatio Spontanea, moreover: bacteria are killed by heating.
\nThis is called \u201cpasteurisation\u201d.<\/p>\n

Pasteur\u2019s experiment is repeated successfully millions of times a day. The canned food industry makes grateful and successful use of Pasteur\u2019s discovery.
\nNotice that Pasteur carried out his experiments a year after the publication of Darwin\u2019s book.
\nPasteur demonstrated that a basic principle of the theory of evolution is flawed.
\nEven if it were to be proved that the world came into existence through a Big-Bang, the dead matter would not have been able to produce life.
\nViewed scientifically, this discovery marks the end of the theory of evolution.<\/p>\n

Albert Einstein:<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0 (born 1879)
\nEinstein is known above all for his \u201ctheory of relativity\u201d, in which he claims that time is not an absolute quantity.
\nI had always wondered how Einstein, as a mathematician and a physicist, was able to deduce that from calculations. When reading his biography it appears that he came to this conclusion by thinking about what happens with a bouncing ball in a train.
\nTo a traveller in the train, the ball makes vertical movements, up and down. To a traveller who is standing on the platform and sees the same train go past, this same ball rather makes a kind of sawtooth movement, and thus apparently covers a longer distance in the same time.
\nIt would take quite a lot to explain this completely, but Einstein concluded<\/strong> that time is not constant quantity<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The \u201ctheory of relativity\u201d<\/strong> was therefore originally only a supposition<\/strong>.
\nEinstein\u2019s mathematics teacher, Hermann Minkowski, gave this theory a mathematical formula<\/strong>.
\nEinstein published<\/strong> his theory of relativity in 1905<\/strong>, without its receiving any great acclaim.<\/p>\n

In 1919<\/strong>, when studying sunrays during an eclipse of the sun, it was confirmed that rays of light are bent by gravity. That was one of the conclusions Einstein had formulated, as a result of his theory of relativity.
\nHis theory of relativity was accepted generally, and Einstein became world famous, only when the truth of this was proven scientifically.<\/p>\n

General remarks:<\/span><\/h3>\n

The above-mentioned examples show that scientific truth comes about in two ways:<\/p>\n

–\u00a0 By observation and experimentation.
\n–\u00a0 By suppositions, or theories, which are only accepted after they have been proven scientifically.
\n(Because of this Einstein had to wait 14 years for recognition.)<\/p>\n

The theory of evolution does not satisfy these conditions and cannot be considered scientifically proven.<\/p>\n

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