Some clump together to become planets, moons, asteroids. Some debris is scattered in the outlying regions, chunks of rock and ice, forming comets. As the protosun grew, its gravitational pull caused a great amount of material to fall from the outer regions to the inner, a time of many impacts. We can see the record of this process in the cratering on moons and planets. At some point, things inevitably become creatively chaotic, and the action must come to a stop, with everyone freezing in position, taking a moment to look at the similarity of their positions to the pictures of the early solar system.
Students form small groups to engage in discussion anfd generation of new analogies of their own.
Scientific Theory and Mythopoetic Traditions Theories reflect the reasoned, causal considerations that explain why the laws of the universe seem to hold. Analogy plays a powerful role in the expression of scientific theory. It is in the idea evoked by analogies that the value of theories lie, for it is when the hypothetical ideas are evoked by analogies that a theory is truly explanatory. Analogies also hook into our metaphysical world- view. A law is a description of a pattern or trend in the facts, often highly interconnected networks which describe a complexity of phenomena.