{"id":1124,"date":"2013-02-20T09:16:38","date_gmt":"2013-02-20T14:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/?p=1124"},"modified":"2013-02-20T09:16:38","modified_gmt":"2013-02-20T14:16:38","slug":"happy-birthday-copernicus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/?p=1124","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday Copernicus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday Google had a doodle for Copernicus on the occasion of his 540th birthday. There have been many pioneers in science that have challenged current\u00a0thought\u00a0and understanding. <a href=\"http:\/\/newswatch.nationalgeographic.com\/2013\/02\/19\/copernicus-gets-a-google-doodle-and-heres-why\/\" target=\"_blank\">Copernicus<\/a> challenged the Earth centered view of the\u00a0universe and gave us the Sun centered view. He was not correct but based on the evidence he had he came up with a new idea. \u00a0He stuck to the evidence and\u00a0conventional\u00a0wisdom and gave us the modern science of\u00a0astronomy. The same could be said for many\u00a0scientific\u00a0ideas. \u00a0With the advent of new information and new technologies what we thought we knew and understood changes. In science nothing is ever really settled,\u00a0particularly large and\u00a0complex systems.<\/p>\n<p>Think about the quest for the elements and the smallest\u00a0particle\u00a0of matter. \u00a0Once upon a time the smallest\u00a0particle\u00a0was an atom, then we split the atom and found Neutron,\u00a0Electrons\u00a0and Protons. \u00a0Since then we have broken these down into quarks. The &#8216;facts&#8217; and &#8216;truth&#8217; for one generation are just steps to the &#8216;facts&#8217; of the next. \u00a0I am thankful for all the\u00a0scientists\u00a0who continue to question, challenge, test and explore current theories and seek to find new frontiers of knowledge. \u00a0Critical, reflective thinking at its best.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday Google had a doodle for Copernicus on the occasion of his 540th birthday. There have been many pioneers in science that have challenged current\u00a0thought\u00a0and understanding. Copernicus challenged the Earth centered view of the\u00a0universe and gave us the Sun centered view. He was not correct but based on the evidence he had he came up with a new idea. \u00a0He stuck to the evidence and\u00a0conventional\u00a0wisdom and gave us the modern science of\u00a0astronomy. The same could be said for many\u00a0scientific\u00a0ideas. \u00a0With&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/?p=1124\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[26,27,131],"tags":[161,154,160],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1124"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1125,"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124\/revisions\/1125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}