Seeing is not always believing A story full of mistakes and contradictions: A story full of mistakes and contradictions

Author: Chen Tianchang
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Publish Date: 2002-11-01
Features: In daily life, it is often found that people have various seemingly correct but actually mistaken common sense misconceptions or even wrong beliefs about surrounding things. For example, TV show guests and hosts repeatedly mistake bad weather for bad climate, and journalists from national newspapers have on multiple occasions mistakenly referred to watchtowers on the Great Wall as beacon towers... Many people confuse sun dogs with solar halos, lunar calendar with Gregorian calendar, dust devils with tornadoes. More people can't distinguish between space walks and human satellites, rainbows and (rainbows), wing-in-ground effect vehicles and seaplanes, upper mirage from lower mirage, and flounder from sole... Some of these seemingly correct but actually mistaken issues have been passed down as misconceptions for over a thousand years. This book tells examples of such seemingly correct but easily misleading things in daily life, points out where the mistakes are, and explains what the correct understanding should be, thereby correcting wrong beliefs and increasing scientific knowledge. This book is suitable for adolescents and adults with junior high school-level education.