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So Einstein was wrong
Scientists have found a way to map the dark matter in the universe, and what they saw appears to contradict Einstein’s general theory of relativity.
That theory was posited in 1915, and since then, scientists have spent their entire careers and lives building on that theory.
Whether the theory is indeed proven to be inaccurate or not, this drives the point home that nothing is ever certain.
Science is the pursuit of understanding the world we live in. It comes up with models and theories to make sense of it. It by no means holds the absolute truth. This might seem trite to say, but so many of us have come to take science as fact.
A scientific mind isn’t one that holds certainties. It is one that’s willing to question. To doubt. To go back to the drawing board even if everyone else is screaming that something is true.
Sadly nowadays, the very people claiming to be scientific in their approach, those that keep saying ‘look at the science’ are some of the most dogmatic people around, unwilling to question or be questioned, and are just on a quest to convert everyone else to their newfound religion : scientism.
History keeps trying to teach us that nothing is ever absolute. We’re all moving through life discovering, learning, forming hypotheses that need to be refined and even…
