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 I agree with what cejensen

 I agree with what cejensen wrote, that "almost everything we observe is related to the scale at which we observe it". This reminds me of the first few days of class, when we discussed subjectivity in science and if there could be Truth(s) in scientific study. I think that much of the reason for us not being able to have any definite Truths or one-sided views of a scientific question is because of the issue of scale and thus perspective.  We could make an observation about something on a very small scale and observe what seem to be solid "facts" about that something, yet those "facts" could appear very wrong once observed from a larger scale. Added to the differences in scale we have the idea that things in general are always changing. This points back to never being able to have Truths- even if a new story appears correct and is verified by many people, it will never be always true because eventually the observed things in the story will change, even if it takes millions of years.  

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