When I was a child, I thought I could get behind the sun if
I just went far enough. Whenever my family and I went on a long drive or on a
trip, I would stare up at the sun and wait for our car to pass it. It took me a
little while to learn, mostly through school and science class, that my
ambition was impossible. I had been looking at the sun as if it was a coin in
the sky with a front and a back to it that could be seen depending on where you
were in relation to it. Through reading and learning more about scientific
research, I found out that the sun is spherical—a
giant ball of fire in our solar system—
and that Earth revolves around it. Therefore
it doesn't matter where you go on the planet; you will never be able to see the
front and then the back of the sun. This is but one of many ways in which
scientific research has changed the way I see the world around me.
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