15 Inaccuracies Found In Common Science Illustrations

I don't get why people who have this urge to explain science also have the urge to 'embellish' what they are saying, and in this case to screw-up the 'corrections' they are trying to make. These 4 explanations are, well, either wrong or pointless.

1. The electron surrounding an atom is best described as a standing wave. The wave is the electron and the electron is the wave. The explanation given in the video just makes a murky description even muddier.

2. The video 'explains' that the asteroids in the asteroid belt are really far away, not the congested stream of rocks usually depicted. But as the video then explains, that huge spacing is only for the very biggest asteroids. In fact we don't know how congested the asteroid belt is for small football-sized or house-size rocks (which could be deadly for a passing space ship), so the typical depiction of the asteroid belt might well be accurate.

3. The video talks about Phlogiston. Why? It has never been part of modern science, so why waste any time talking about it.

4. Likewise unicorns??? Excuse me? For the life of me I don't get why someone talking about science would waste even one microsecond worrying about how a mythical creature is depicted. [I thought "the science is settled" when it comes to Anthropomorphic Unicorn Depictions.]

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-06/scp-atr062013.php

Interesting!

It would appear that my high school science teacher was a bit ahead of the curve and that was 22+ years ago! He pointed out a few of these things way back then.

Now my math teacher on the other hand............ Lets just say a he could have been replaced with a box of rocks and I would have learned more that was mathematically correct.

I don't think many of us were ever convinced that the illustrations presented an accurate depiction of the event.

The fact that text books are outdated is no secret to any of us. Look at how they are developed, approved and used. (Most are not even used any more) Kansas and Texas still believe that the stork delivers babies.

Mainly, it's a joke. Sadly, many of today's students don't have a clue anyway.