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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/16670924

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[–] TriflingToad@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

ignoring the elephant in the room that the study of anyone other than white males is rare, people don't talk about the obvious. We don't write it down.

Gravity took FOREVER before someone went "wait why?" and there's tons of stuff we don't even think about, like the 'new shape' that people just didn't think to talk about because it's just so simple

[–] lauha@lemmy.one 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

the study of anyone other than non white males is rare,

There's plenty of studies on white males.

[–] TriflingToad@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

sorry typo 🙃

[–] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 month ago

What is that? Does it have a name?

It looks like you could stack them in a strong way.

[–] Lifter@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 month ago

That's not a simple shape. Why would people want to talk about it?

[–] MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago

To be fair Plato said that earth and water elements want to go down in order to be near the other earth and water. That's his explanation for the phenomena of gravity. Newton's explanation is rather less intuitive and requires an understanding of orbital mechanics.