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Originally Posted by Paul Smeenus
There was no evidence for a flat OR round earth. Once the research was done, the conclusion became evident. Same holds for sub-atomic particles and the question as to whether they are micro universes.
There are people that still believe the earth is flat FWIW.
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The evidence for a flat Earth was people were walking around on it and it looked pretty flat too. 2000 years ago, what little evidence there was regarding the shape of the Earth pointed to it being flat, not round.
As for sub-atomic particles, philosophers and scientists once believed atoms were the fundamental building blocks of stuff, then they discovered protons and neutrons and electrons, then they discovered protons and neutrons were made of smaller things called quarks. Who knows what they'll discover as technology improves, but I wouldn't be surprised if quarks are made up of still smaller stuff. It's like nothing being able to travel faster than the speed of light, that was regarded as bullet-proof fact, but they've recently done experiments that seems to show entangled photons sharing information several thousand times faster than the speed of light. We don't really know anything.