someone tells you there's wet paint somewhere, you have to touch it to make sure?
2007-01-10 21:04:19 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
If we contradict a person who says that there are a million stars, we have to prove otherwise. We'd have to research it or start counting ...
If someone says there's wet paint, it's quite simple how to prove them wrong..... or not.
2007-01-10 21:08:00 · answer #1 · answered by Jaqua 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I think its to do with how it will affect us too. If there is wet paint somewhere.....we might be about to go through the door that's wet, or walk through the corridor that has wet walls. We aren't gonna fly through the cosmos and bump into any stars any time soon. Its the same as when you say....."don't look up" and the first thing most people say and do is...."why?" and look up! because there might be some kind of threat/danger, likewise if you might see yourself possibly touching the wet paint etc you want to DEFINITELY know its wet....so u check it and touch it! yes! definitely wet....I'll look out for that! but the stars aren't a day to day concern so it doesn't matter whether theres 3 million, or 3 million and 1. I hope u get what i mean lol :P
2007-01-11 05:16:06 · answer #2 · answered by heavenlyprinceoffrogs 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
This is a bad logic. If U never have visited north pole then there is no reason to assume that north pole does not exist on earth. I never saw the north pole but I believe that IT EXIST because many people who have a lot of experience and lot-lot more knowledge then me had actually reached there and they told that it exist.
Now coming to Ur 'wet paint' logic. if U have no reason to believe that person telling this fact is actually telling truth then U can ( I'll say WILL ) touch it to make sure. because there is a probability that for some mysterious reason of its own the person was lying to U. But if the person is reliable and U don't have means and time to check it personally U should take his word.
In the case of science especially, U have to take the words of those eminent scientists not because they have worked their whole life and up to the depth we cannot imagine on a topic but because U have no way to verify it. U cannot count stars on fingers at least.
And one more thing, no one is going to spend his life studying a topic, donating almost his life to experiment something and wasting billions of billions of money just for the sake of sending U to school and college for a quarter of Ur life to study them, neither just for the sake of lying U. so U can have blind faith in them. I do have !
but there is always scope for improvement. If someone states by his calculation that there are 300000 billion stars in the sky. Now with some more advanced and more accurate calculations someone announce that there are actually 300000 trillion stars present then we also have to change our knowledge at that moment.
So in science when we take a fact then we take it with the possible errors lying in it. and if any day anyone come up with a better result no one hesitates to break old laws and definitions. This is how it works and this is what makes 'science' reliable
2007-01-11 18:06:32 · answer #3 · answered by Anurag ® 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Actually, I'm pretty sure we have touched a star (the sun), although indirectly, by firing a probe at it. I have no doubts that when NASA finally manages to secure the funding, they will be sending spacecraft (albiet very slow ones) towards our next nearest star in an attempt to verify its composition.
Anyway, you can see stars and know there are more than you can count, but you can't always see if paint is wet until you touch it. It's to do with what is required to validate the statement for yourself.
2007-01-11 13:27:19 · answer #4 · answered by Mawkish 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
maybe cos we cant touch stars. its easier to check wet paint than to count stars, and its also harder to tell if paint is wet or dry, but we can easily see that there are tonnes of stars in the sky.
2007-01-11 05:08:47 · answer #5 · answered by i_confuzzled 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
There are not millions of stars in the Universe. There are billions upon billions.
2007-01-11 06:00:09 · answer #6 · answered by los 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Why do people tell me that there is no God because they can't see him, but believe there are millions of stars in the universe, and that the universe stretches beyond our ability to see, picture, or measure? They can't see them either
2007-01-11 05:13:53 · answer #7 · answered by mark g 6 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Um, actually its a million stars for EVERY GRAIN of sand on every beach in the entire world. And that has been proven.
Mind-blowing, huh?
2007-01-11 05:21:16 · answer #8 · answered by Buck Flair 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
ther motre likly going to be over a trillion stars just that not all of them can be sean .....
oh an as 4 the paint no one told me before i lent against the wall in my new jaket ..............
2007-01-11 14:15:21 · answer #9 · answered by Michael D 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because the human brain can't take no for an answer
2007-01-11 15:54:57 · answer #10 · answered by manc1999 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋