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Scientific Paradigms
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Copernican Revolution
The paradigm shift from a geocentric view of the universe to a heliocentric one, with the sun at the center and the Earth moving around it.
The Structure of DNA
The double helix model of DNA proposed by Watson and Crick, marking a paradigm shift in understanding genetic information and heredity.
Aristotelian Physics
A framework that explained physical phenomena in terms of Aristotle's concepts of matter, form, and privation, including ideas like natural motion and celestial spheres.
Quantum Mechanics
A fundamental theory in physics that provides a description of the physical properties of nature at the scale of atoms and subatomic particles.
Plate Tectonics
A geoscientific paradigm that describes the motions of Earth's lithosphere and has fundamentally changed the understanding of Earth's geology.
Ptolemaic Astronomy
A geocentric model that described the universe with the Earth at its center, with planetary motions explained by epicycles on top of deferents.
Newtonian Mechanics
A classical physics paradigm where the motions of bodies were explained by universal gravitation and the three laws of motion.
Darwinian Evolution
The biological paradigm that species evolve over time due to natural selection and genetic variation.
The Big Bang Theory
The cosmological paradigm that explains the origin and evolution of the universe, depicting it as expanding from a hot, dense initial state.
General Relativity
Albert Einstein's theory of gravitation that describes gravity as a property of the geometry of space and time, or spacetime, caused by mass.
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