The debate has been going on for some times now, at least for a few years now. The news appeared in the headline again today. Is it a planet or is it not? Yeap, the ninth planet in our solar system seems to be in shaky position after a new icy rock was discovered. What so intrigue about this icy rock, known as "2003 UB313" or "Xena" is that it is actually bigger than Pluto. In fact it is 70 miles longer in diameter than Pluto.
The big question now... to demote Pluto or welcome Xena as the tenth planet?
Come to think of it... science is rather vulnerable... a principle or a theory is true until it is proven otherwise.
This is scary... yet this is exciting. Imagine, someone might discover some new evident that may just refute the Einstein theory of E=mc^2. What about if someone was able to create negative mass, travel faster than the speed of light and thus allowing human to travel back in time?
No doubt, we are in an age where science is at its most exciting stage. I believe we are no way near the end of Science. The reason is simple, we still can't find a unified theory or the fundamental law that governs our world and universe. But yet, we always seem to discover new things everyday and more experiments are carried out in labs around the world to strengthen Science and to bring Science to the next level.
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