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eppur_se_muova

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16. "Knowledgable people are aware of the deep fundamental similarity between ... "

Reply to jakeXT (Original post)

Sun Feb 16, 2014, 12:22 AM

Feb 2014

spontaneous symmetry breaking of the Higgs field in particle physics and the formation of Cooper pairs in superconductivity ..."

One of my professors used to have a little "POINT/COUNTERPOINT" blurb posted next to his door. The "point" was made by the statement re spontaneous symmetry breaking (as nearly as I can remember it) and the "counterpoint" by something similar to the OP.

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One in four Americans unaware that Earth revolves around Sun: poll [View all] jakeXT Feb 2014 OP

The Republicans and religious right avebury Feb 2014 #1

2,200 is a small sampling Auggie Feb 2014 #2

>>> Historic NY Feb 2014 #3

To me this speaks to the education stats in our country. proudretiredvet Feb 2014 #4

Welcome to DU! longship Feb 2014 #5

Why single out urban non-white kids? It's the rural white religious nuts that celebrate ignorance. arcane1 Feb 2014 #7

Pretty much. JoeyT Feb 2014 #10

The full report from the American Association for the Advancement of Science is available... DreamGypsy Feb 2014 #6

Thanks for the link. Table 7-8 on p. 23 gives the questions and the percentage of correct responses. xocet Feb 2014 #11

Not the Onion? Vashta Nerada Feb 2014 #8

More depressing: in 2005, 1 in 3 in the EU were unaware muriel_volestrangler Feb 2014 #9

Or is it that 25% of Americans don't know the meaning of 'revolve'? HereSince1628 Feb 2014 #12

NPR doesn't have the word "revolve" in the actual statement of the question. Jim__ Feb 2014 #13

I wonder if they surveyed any of my relatives TxDemChem Feb 2014 #14

It's a trick question. defacto7 Feb 2014 #15

"Knowledgable people are aware of the deep fundamental similarity between ... " eppur_se_muova Feb 2014 #16