The Other Side of the Moon

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There was a time when we believed that Earth is flat and the sky is a dome shaped hemisphere with lot of tiny fixed white spots which are visible only in dark. Of course there are two disks that start traveling from the East to the West daily – The Sun and Moon. But nobody knew how these discs and white spots appeared again in the East horizon which disappeared in the West horizon the previous day. After some time we realized that Earth is the centre of the universe and the other celestial objects revolved around the mother Earth. Now Earth is no more the center of the universe.

The Moon never turned her face and showed us the other side of it, since the revolution of moon around Earth perfectly synchronized with its rotation on its own axis. This further delayed scientists to find out that Moon is a sphere, not a disk. Of course Sun rotated and showed us all sides, but it is too bright and scientists did not notice the black spot, so it remained a disc shaped object.

We have never seen the other side of the moon, and I believe that generally nobody cares about the other side of it. The fact ‘It did not showed us the other side’ made a lot in the scientific history. I need to rethink about the principle of scientific theorem “If all the existing behavior of anything can be explained by a statement, then it is accepted as a scientific theorem”. When new behaviors are discovered we invent new theorems. But nobody knows the absolute truth, which can only be revealed by the creator.

“The moon never turned the other side on us” made a lot of difference. When we say something, or when we invent something, or when we forward a mail received, or when we judge some one, think again, whether we have seen the other side which never appeared or does it have the other side. When we speak about countries and people far away be sure that you are not generalizing the relative truth that holds well only with the face that is turned towards you, or truth that holds well only in your view.

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