vis4valentine@lemmy.ml to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 1 year agoIn the most scientific way possible? How real is the possibility that there might actually be alternative universes?message-squaremessage-square62fedilinkarrow-up182
arrow-up182message-squareIn the most scientific way possible? How real is the possibility that there might actually be alternative universes?vis4valentine@lemmy.ml to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 1 year agomessage-square62fedilink
minus-squarePons_Aelius@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up3·edit-21 year agoThis is a case of a term that was until recently specific but is now becoming a more general term. While planets orbiting other stars has been talked about for centuries, it is only in the past few decades that we have been able to confirm their existence. So, up until then Solar system was a term that described our solar system as it was the only one known to exist.
minus-squareitsnotits@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoThere’s only one solar system in the universe as it is the system of Sol (the Sun), our local star. Other terms such as solar mass, solar wind, solar nebula, solar atmosphere, and solar flare likewise relate to Sol.
This is a case of a term that was until recently specific but is now becoming a more general term.
While planets orbiting other stars has been talked about for centuries, it is only in the past few decades that we have been able to confirm their existence.
So, up until then Solar system was a term that described our solar system as it was the only one known to exist.
There’s only one solar system in the universe as it is the system of Sol (the Sun), our local star.
Other terms such as solar mass, solar wind, solar nebula, solar atmosphere, and solar flare likewise relate to Sol.