Two days ago, I saw a paragraph that said that most people do not use facts to revise their cognition, but only use cognition to correct facts.
That's true.
For example, in the matter of the shape of the earth, although many people step on the ground and know the water level, sea level, and horizon height, they are unwilling to accept the fact that the earth is a round pie, but use various evidence to prove their existing understanding - the earth is a spherical shape.
A typical one is that some netizens posted the Earth** taken from the International Space Station on January 21, 2024, and asked why the horizon in the distance is not a straight line? This proves that the earth is spherical.
Although many articles in this issue have shown that the earth is a thick round cake (see "The Lie of Western Science (2): The Shape of the Earth" and "Why Do You Think the Earth is a Ball?" Because of the ten deep-rooted misconceptions", "Astrology Reproves the Flattening Theory"), but many people simply do not see or do not want to see many of the characteristics of the ball, and the round cake also has.
Let's take a look at the following group**.
The item above is not a ball, but a cake with a certain thickness.
Let's take a look at the Earth that was filmed from space**.
From the comparison of the above two ** films, we can see that the ** taken by the space station does not prove that the earth is spherical, but only shows that the earth is round.
Round and spherical are two concepts that are very different.