• HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml
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    1 month ago

    The model of the solar system as planets rotating mostly within a flat plane around the sun

    This hasn’t been the prevailing theory in a while. Actually, that’s true for most of the simplified models we learned in elementary school. What you describe is quite a bit closer to the prevailing theory.

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      1 month ago

      Oh, well that’s good to know. Thanks! I guess I need to update my own knowledge of what prevailing thought is.

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        29 days ago

        Did you really think that what you were able to infer from basic knowledge about the motion of the planets was not realized by scientists?

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          29 days ago

          I did not think it was a prevailing theory. Now I’m curious about what you wanted to accomplish by asking that question. Why would it matter either way?