An attempt to unify intellectual knowledge when Earth was believed to be flat

Imaging a scenario on exchanging intellectual knowledge of our world about three centuries ago, a time when people still believed that Earth was flat and was the center of universe. The observation at northern hemisphere people saw the universe centered on Earth moved in a clockwise direction. The observation at southern hemisphere people saw the universe centered on Earth moved in a counter clockwise direction. Scientific theories, philosophies, intellectual knowledge for navigation, farming, etc, were developed based on their respective localized point of views.

Over time, scholars from both hemispheres reached pinnacles in their studies; they decided that they should meet people from the other side of the world to share with them their profound findings. So one day scholars from both sides of the world had met for forum discussions. Inevitably everyone ended up disagreeing with everyone. Their evidence showed that the knowledge from both sides conflicted severely, were not in the same paths and fundamentally opposite. In eruptions of heated arguments everyone view other contenders as demons of the century who were postulating theories on similar observations with fundamentally opposite principles against their knowledge. They have had many irresolvable conflicts that they could not accept each other, and therefore those knowledge based on localized phenomena could not be unified.

With modern knowledge we now know it beyond doubt that our world is not a flat one, and the myth that Earth is the center of universe is merely an optical illusion, and understood how those conflicts and controversial at then had aroused.

Without being enlightened that Earth is a spheroidal planet rotating and revolving around the Sun, misled by localized phenomena in unsuspected paradoxes all were like fool stumbling in illusions. People in delusions have all sorts of misconceptions among themselves and therefore were confused and divided, thus, based on their own perceptions with firm belief they inevitably would go their separate ways.

If those people at then were enlightened that Earth is a spheroidal planet that rotates and revolves around the Sun, and thus understand the observations for celestial objects from opposite hemisphere that have locally appeared to be rotating in opposite direction is merely an optical illusion of the rotating Earth, they would have been able to understand as a matter of fact that they were all propagating in unity for the same subject on a same path in the same direction as with the revolving and rotating Earth around the Sun. With the understanding for this paradoxical effect they would have been able to transcend to an elevated perspective and thereby would have clarified and hence unified those intellectual knowledge that were differentiated based on localized perspectives.

However, a man in denial could find it hard to understand a simple truth can occur when his pride, faith or belief depends upon his not understanding.

General recognition for Copernicus's theory of heliocentrism and Galileo's spheroidal Earth theory had taken more than two centuries.

Even in modern time, there is an organization known as Flat Earth Society that still hold a belief that the Earth is a flat world.

"Moreover, since the sun remains stationary, whatever appears as a motion of
the sun is really due rather to the motion of the earth." - Nicolaus Copernicus (1473 – 1543)

“By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.” - Galileo Galilei

It was said that Copernicus and Galileo had lived in an era when philosophy ruled, therefore the huge disparities in their communities for not being able to understand or accept their great scientific findings. In modern scientific scenario, there is a firm belief on we are now in a new era ruled by scientific realism that there would not have such disparity with the knowledge modern science has acquired and is pursuing. Unknowingly, in a great slumbering state that paradoxically behaves like in an awakened manner, this firm belief is also dwelling in illusions; in the illusion of knowing and the illusion of having control. We are in a paradoxical universe, see paradoxical effect of Universal Vortical Singularity and the complexly inversed illusions.

In older times, when philosophy was the consensus for the objective study of nature where astrology was not separated from astronomy, the methodology adopted in theoretical physics such as deductive reasoning to prove mathematically has been an excellence tool for validity analysis to segregate realities from myths in those studies for science of that time. However, ever since mathematical physics has taken over the scene for modern science, theoretical physics for natural science has been discreetly sidetracked.

A paradoxical universe

The Universal Vortical Singularity

Dedicated to Nicolaus Copernicus and Galileo Galilei, the people who had withheld integrity and endured all traumas and hardships just for bringing a simple truth to humanity.

A quest towards unity through a great awakening

Dedicated to Albert Einstein, and also to all who have contributed for the quest towards unity, in searching for a unifying theory of everything (TOE) that is based on a single model.

Ref:
Copernicus's theory of heliocentrism - From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Galileo Galilei - From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Galileo's spheroidal Earth theory - From Eccentric Lives and Peculiar Notions by John Michell (1984) pg. 21-22
The Emperor's New Clothes - www. mindfully.org; An Anderson's tale
Flat Earth Society - From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sientific realism - From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Natural science - From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mathematical physics - From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Theoretical physics - From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Image of Flat Earth - Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania