Ok so first on the learning trail is Immanuel Kant - no I'm not going to go into epistemology. Apparantly 250 years ago this clever chap thought that there must be more going on in the universe and tried to explain how stars and planets were made. He took an idea by the chap that founded Sweden (ok so probably not!!) Emanuel Swedenborg and polished and improved it.
Kant theorised that nebulas (nebulae given the correct plural), slowly rotating discs of gas, eventually flatten and form planets and stars thus leading to not only our Galaxy but all the others as well. Although what kick starts the nebula spinning or what caused the nebula to form in the first place is a mystery - to me at least! I'll let you know when I learn it!
Awesome! But now allegedly scientists are coming round to this way of thinking albeit filtered down through many clever and tongue-twistingly named sorts (Pierre La Place, Thomas Chamberlin, Forest Moulton, Andrew Prentice and Victor Sofronov). There we go - Thing number 1 learned
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