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5 Theories Scientists Used to Believe That Are Completely Wrong

5 Theories Scientists Used to Believe That Are Completely Wrong

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2:25 The crazy heat "fluid" theory, Caloric

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5 Theories Scientists Used to Believe That Are Completely Wrong

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  1. 1 0:00 Science is littered with bad theories
  2. 2 0:56 Aristotle's mechanics was really bad
  3. 3 2:25 The crazy heat "fluid" theory, Caloric
  4. 4 5:53 The Luminiferous Aether
  5. 5 7:53 Newton's failure: Corpuscular light
  6. 6 9:48 Newton's law of universal gravitation
  7. 7 12:05 How to spot when a theory is BAD

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