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Article: Use the senses as adjunctive aids, not infallible allies. (Originated from X X X)
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
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- January 21, 1994
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1994 Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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By Tim O'Brien
Knight-Ridder Newspapers
The next time we feel completely sure that the perceptions through our senses are 100-percent correct, we should sit down, close our eyes and ponder this. As we sit, apparently motionless, we are on a planet that spins on its axis at a rate at the equator of 1,000 miles per hour. This same planet hurls through space orbiting its sun every 365.25 days.
That orbit traverses several hundred million miles, more than a million and a half per day, faster than 66,000 miles per hour. This rotating, orbiting planet also moves in tandem with the solar system. It both orbits a distant center of the universe and expands out from it. ...
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