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Which scientist challenged a dominant astronomical paradigm after observing Jupiter's moons?

paradigm

[par-uh-dahym, -dim] / ˈpær əˌdaɪm, -dɪm /


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That will reward aficionados who rightly see the Cybertruck as a bold-yet-doomed attempt to break out of the established pickup paradigm and try something wildly different.

From Slate ● Nov. 9, 2026

For decades, conservation strategies have been influenced by the "closed-forest paradigm."

From Science Daily ● Nov. 7, 2026

But that would require "a big paradigm shift" in energy demand in Turkey: "We need to change the demand from diesel or gasoline towards electricity," he said.

From Barron's ● Nov. 6, 2026

“This is a paradigm shift,” California Natural Resources Secretary Wade Crowfoot told the board during Thursday’s hearing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026

He argued then that the time had come for racial justice advocates to shift from a civil rights to a human rights paradigm, and that the real work of movement building had only just begun.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

Unlike some of his earlier books, “The American Way of Killing” doesn’t start or end with clever paradigms.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

Since then, in rare public statements, Sutskever has publicly doubted whether simply scaling up current paradigms is sufficient.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026

"Crucially, these new quantum algorithms can enable the development of new quantum materials to build new paradigms of quantum computers, creating a productive two-way feedback loop between quantum materials and quantum computers," he explains.

From Science Daily ● May 13, 2026

Higher energy costs, higher interest rates and shifting economic paradigms from the AI-investment cycle are creating both winners and losers that the credit markets struggle to discount adequately.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 31, 2026

What is striking about these intellectual tools and cultural values is that they have proved to have a history quite unlike that of paradigms.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton


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