Planet Formation Theories in Light of New Planets Being Found

[BillT]

Hundreds of Planets outside our solar system have been found recently.
They describe solar systems different from our own.
New theories of planet formation are being proposed to describe this diversity:

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/07/forbidden-planets-understanding-alien-worlds-once-thought-impossible

[BallAquatics]

LOL  We think we are soooooo smart, and yet, we know nothing.  It's amazing how much of the science that I grew up with, things we knew to be true, turned out to be completely wrong.  I have come to view all of these new revelations with a somewhat jaded slant.  LOL

Dennis

[Mugwump]

LOL  We think we are soooooo smart, and yet, we know nothing.  It's amazing how much of the science that I grew up with, things we knew to be true, turned out to be completely wrong.  I have come to view all of these new revelations with a somewhat jaded slant.  LOL

Dennis

...but how were we expected to know any better, given the tools that we had...? ..Actually, look at everything we somehow got right...

[BallAquatics]

Not complaining as it is just the nature of discovery.  More like experience based musings......   

Dennis

[BillT]

LOL  We think we are soooooo smart, and yet, we know nothing.  It's amazing how much of the science that I grew up with, things we knew to be true, turned out to be completely wrong.  I have come to view all of these new revelations with a somewhat jaded slant.  LOL

Dennis

I usually think of it as a series of increasingly accurate approximations of external reality.
Each iteration gives a slightly more accurate explanation or one that applies to an increasingly wider scope of phenomena.

Sometimes, things seem kind of crazy though.