ASSIGMENT

EVOLUTION OF SCIENCE, MATHEMATICS, AND TECHNOLOGY

(NATURE OF SCIENCE AND SCIENTIFIC METHOD PART)

NAME : JAMHARI
STUDENT ID : 5838315 ILSE/M

Please select the choice that best reflect your opinion and, if possible, provide an explanation
supporting your selection

1. Scientific knowledge cannot be changed (Disagree)

Many natural phenomena which make scientists always look for a truth from the phenomena.
They want to discover and prove the truth of natural phenomena, and then a discovery will be
published on the world and to be a scientific knowledge. While other scientists want to develop or
prove the discovery. So that, it can not be denied that scientific knowledge can be developed or
changed.
When I studied in elementary school, I had learnt about the solar system in the Milky Way's.
There were nine planets, one of them was Pluto. Pluto was discovered by Clyde William
Tombaugh, a young astronomer at the Lowell Observatory, on February 18, 1930. Since that time
he became a member of the Milky Way's most distant. because technically, there was never a
scientific definition of the term Planet before 2006. The official definition of planet by International
Astronomy Union (IAU) occurred in 2006, in the Solar system, a planet is a celestial body which 1)
is in orbit around the Sun, 2) has sufficient mass to assume hydrostatic equilibrium (a nearly round
shape), and 3) has "cleared the neighborhood" around its orbit (has the clear orbital path or no other
celestial bodies in the orbit). Therefore Pluto is not entitled to be one of planets of the solar system
in the Milky Way's. Because it did not qualify third. Pluto's orbit cut Neptune's orbit, so that in its
travels around the Sun, Pluto is sometimes closer to the Sun than Neptune. Besides orbit owned by
Pluto does not fit or different to other planets as the picture below :

Explanation above is one of examples which prove that natural phenomena can be changed.
We also do not know what happen in the future about phenomena of the solar system. What it will
occur developments or changes, what astronomers will find a new planet in the solar system or
nothing. So many scientific knowledge which has changed besides about the phenomena astronomy
above. Therefore I disagree that scientific knowledge cannot be changed. Scientific knowledge can
be developed even be changed with new evidences, theories, technology, and interpretations.