Math Blog QQC due 6/17/11

"This was the first American-discovered planet, and no one was going to be distracted by the thought that it was really just a distant icy dot. It was named Pluto at least partly because the first two letters made a monogram from Lowell's initials. Lowell was posthumously hailed everywhere as a genius of the first order, and Tombaugh was largely forgotten, except among planetary astronomers, who tend to revere him."

Why do people have to be so ignorant and not realize the true founder of discoverer of a discovery?

It amazes me how one person manages to discover something important and if they aren't fast enough to take the responsibility for it they can be forgotten. Dropped like they did not exist, I wonder how these inventors and discoverers react when they are ignored or left not to be acknowledged.

Math QQC Due 6.10.11

"How do they know what goes on inside an atom? And how, come to that- or perhaps above all-can scientists so often seem to know nearly everything but then still can't predict an earthquake"

How much of what we know will be applicable in future years?

It is a vastly interesting point of view, that everything we hold to be true is actually undetermined. We hold certain "truths" but we cannot entirely tell whether or not they are real. Most things are theoretical, and with science, certain theories could be proven wrong later down the line.

Math Blog Test

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