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At some point when you were little, you learned that it hurt to bump into hard things, that some things were runny (like water) and that something that you couldn't even see could hold a kite off the ground.
At some later time you found out that lots of very tiny things called atoms and molecules either bounced off each other (to make the air) or slid over each other (to make the water) of stuck together in specific shapes (to make the hard stuff).
Initially, that had to seem pretty weird, right? But it was the same stuff it had always been; you just knew a little more about it. Still hurts to bump into hard stuff, still can't drink air or breath water, etc.
Later you undoubtedly encountered relativity and were told that you wouldn't grow old as quickly if you moved really, really fast! Who could believe such a thing? But we've all accepted that by now.
So there's more weirdness to come (that is, more things that we've lived with but never understood).
It is kind of freaky, but whatever the case turns out to be, it's been that way all along. And once a clear picture of this particular phenomenon emerges, we'll all get used to that, too.
It's great that there's more to discover and it's only unsettling in the sense that we thought we knew all about it and we didn't.
Here's my main takeaway:
In 1989 there was a Nobel Conference entitled, "The End of Science?" to discuss whether we'd learned all there was to know. No-fucking-bel!
And look at all the things that have continued to amaze and confuse us since 1989.
Whenever someone tells you we know it all, stop talking to that person. They will always be wrong.
(P.S. In NO WAY am I suggesting that spirits or mystical forces or god is responsible for any of this!)
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