3 Lies You Were probably Taught In School. 1. There are three states of matter You might remember being taught that there are three states of matter namely; solid, liquid and gas. Well that is not entirely true. Your teacher might have lied to you because you were probably too young to comprehend the other states of matter. Although it wouldn’t hurt your science teacher to say something like “there are three popular states of matter” or “we are going to learn three state of matter at this stage”, your science teacher had to ram a lie to your throat not minding how difficult it would be for you to unlearn such a prevarication. Four states of matter are observable in everyday life: solid, liquid, gas, and plasma. Many other states are known such as Bose–Einstein condensates and neutron- degenerate matter but these only occur in extreme situations such as ultra cold or ultra dense matter. Other states, such as quark–gluon plasmas, are believed to be possible but remain theoretical for now. 2. You have five senses. Its a lie. Humans do not have just five senses, there are at least nine senses and most researchers think there are more like twenty one or so. Humans have more than the commonly cited five senses. The number of senses in various categorizations ranges from 5 to more than 20. In addition to sight, smell, taste, touch, and hearing, which were the senses identified by Aristotle, humans can sense balance and acceleration (equilibrioception), pain (nociception), body and limb position (proprioception or kinesthetic sense), and relative temperature (thermoception) .Other senses sometimes identified are the sense of time, itching, pressure, hunger, thirst, fullness of the stomach, need to urinate, need to defecate, and blood carbon dioxide levels. Each time a teacher says there are five senses, the teacher is referring to Aristotle’s classification of the senses, which if you ask us is a very old text to teach a student in the 21st century. 3. There are different taste areas for taste on your tongue. All different tastes can be detected on all parts of the tongue by taste buds, with slightly increased sensitivities in different locations depending on the person, contrary to the popular belief that specific tastes only correspond to specific mapped sites on the tongue. The original tongue map was based on a mistranslation of a 1901 German thesis by Edwin Boring. In addition, the current common categorical conception is there are not 4 but 5 primary tastes. In addition to bitter, sour, salty, and sweet, humans have taste receptors for umami, which is a savory or meaty taste. What other lie do you remember being told in school?
Posted on: Sat, 23 Aug 2014 11:38:06 +0000
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