Scientists such as Copernicus, Kepler and Galileo all looked anew at the existing view in science and provided alternative theories about the known world which challenged the scientific community in a manner which was frequently unpopular. They did not merely accept what was believed at the time, they observed anomalies and looked for alternative explanations. Courage was needed to put forward alternative ideas - ideas which made others think about what is already known and re-look at the evidence.
In December 1947, India and Pakistan signed a standstill agreement according to which India agreed not to diminish the supply of water to the Pakistani irrigation system prior to June 1948, and thereafter to confine the cut to small periodical amounts, pending construction alternative the construction of alternative systems of supply in Pakistan. In July
1954. the dispute between the two countries became more serious when India completed the first phase of the Bhakra-Nangal project. The flow of the Sutlej was temporarily stopped to fill the two new reservoirs.
Scientists such as Copernicus, Kepler and Galileo all looked anew at the existing view in science and provided alternative theories about the known world which challenged the scientific community in a manner which was frequently unpopular. They did not merely accept what was believed at the time, they observed anomalies and looked for alternative explanations. Courage was needed to put forward alternative ideas - ideas which made others think about what is already known and re-look at the evidence. This is very important in the development of science over time. There is a need for people to work within existing paradigms, but progress comes largely from those creative people who can look beyond existing paradigms to a new order, people with new insights. Such people make life uncomfortable for the majority of the scientific community. So it is with children.
Scientists such as Copernicus, Kepler and Galileo all looked anew at the existing view in science and provided alternative theories about the known world which challenged the scientific community in a manner which was frequently unpopular. They did not merely accept what was believed at the time, they observed anomalies and looked for alternative explanations. Courage was needed to put forward alternative ideas - ideas which made others think about what is already known and re-look at the evidence.