Deep thoughts

To creatures that evolved on the African savanna, contemporary physicists ' understanding of the world is preposterous. Physicists believe a whole lot of stuff that is pointless and ridiculous. I can ' t say that I understand it very well myself but after a lifetime of subscribing to Scientific American, and reading a few books along the way, I think I have a reasonable intuitive understanding of most of it, and how they got to their conclusions, enough to convince me that they ' re understanding is progressive." Progressive " is the most credit I can give because they will be the first to tell you that there is a whole lot about the world that still baffles them. In fact, they can ' t account for 95% of the mass-energy content of the universe. Furthermore, much of their current theoretical picture may turn out to be not quite right. Nevertheless they have gotten closer to the truth than ever before, and much of their arcane and counterintuitive knowledge must be correct in some sense because the Global Positioning System and microprocessors, among other technologies, work.But the vast majority of people don ' t know anything about quantum chromodynamics or particle entanglement or the general theory of relativity, and if I tried to explain it to them they ' d think it was insane. On the other hand I do know a lot about Christianity -- my uncle was a preacher, my mother taught Sunday school, and I went until I was 13. And let me tell you, it is absolutely ridiculous. I won ' ...
Source: Stayin' Alive - Category: American Health Source Type: blogs