Science Enlightenment Appreciation Thread

I dont know, just try to explain it. I had an experience that changed my worldview forever when i was 15, and the cause was my contemplation of general relativity, and suddenly i got it. Everything changed, i grasped reality in a way i never could before. One realisation triggered another one and another one, and i felt so light i could fly, but i was terribly confused. But it all fell into place, it was a true moment of enlightenment. I was knocked out for maybe 1 hour. Everything i ever felt shifted and felt different, so much more real, what i touched was more real, the ground under my feet was more real. I realized that the material around me, the atoms, are BILLIONS of years old. I grasped that my existence is possible only because my ancestors never failed to find a mate and reproduced for an unbroken chain of millions of years.

And everything changed, forever. Afterward, walking felt different because for me what i am walking on had changed forever. I grasped a more awesome reality and when i did, i knew things would never ever be the same again. I think this is what buddhists call enlightenment.

And i need to share one 10-minute video with you that expresses this feeling.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyjNXdEGjO4

Anyone else had this experience? Some people even have it 2 or 3 times during their lifetime. Sadly, most people never experience it.

Yea, dude, most people experiment with drugs at some point in their teenage years.

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i was absolutely sober when i experienced that, and no drug could be powerful enough to change my life trajectory like that experience did.

Things just fell into place.... forever. All my religion got undermined forever in that single moment of realisation, i grasped the truth and had to honestly reject my christian upbringing, because i realized it is WRONG. 2000 years are just too miniscule in the grander design, the grander sceme of things.

BTW: i am 30 now, this happened to me 15 years ago, i have since adapted but this enlightenment never went away, my life did change in that moment. And for me, an understanding of general relativity was the trigger.

Good read.

I kind of get what you mean since I get to play with meteorites at work. There's nothing to make you feel insignifigant like holding a piece of Mars or the Moon, or a rock that cooled from the original solar disk, remained otherwise unchanged for the next 4.65 billion years, fell to the surface of the earth intact, was found, recognized for what it was and ended up in my puny silly human hand. Science is awesome!