HPS100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 18: Jigsaw Puzzle, World View
4 Nov 2016
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Hps 100 chapter 18 summary of problems facing the. Recall that on the aristotelian worldview heavy objects have natural tendency to move toward the center of the universe and that was what kept us on and why heavy objects fell. Again on the aristotelian worldview objects in motion tend to come to a halt unless something keeps them in motion. This belief coincides with the everyday experience of this piece of the jigsaw puzzle must be wrong if the earth is in motion. This too does not fit in the jigsaw. But an infinite universe will not fit into the aristotelian picture especially into the aristotelian view of the natural motion. An infinite universe has neither a center nor periphery. So the account of the natural motion of the basic elements either motion towards the center of the universe are away from the center of the universe cannot beat me to work in an infinite universe.
