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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.
Anyone else had this experience? Some people even have it 2 or 3 times during their lifetime. Sadly, most people never experience it.
The Big Bang almost certainly (beyond reasonable doubt) happened 13.7 billion years ago. If you disagree, send me a PM.
Evolution is a fact, evolutionary theory explains why it happens and provides four different lines of evidence that coalesce to show that evolution is a fact. If you disagree, send me a PM.
One third of the global economy relies on technology that is based on quantum mechanics, especially quantum electrodynamics (electron-photon or electron-electron interactions). If you disagree, send me a PM.
Time Dilation is real, it is so real that all clocks if they are precise enough can measure it, and GPS could not possibly work without it. If you disagree, send me a PM.
The 4 philosophically most important aspects of modern science are: Evolutionary theory, Cosmology, Quantum mechanics, and Einsteins theory of general relativity. Understand these to get a grip of reality.
my favorite music video is online again, its really nice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oABEGc8Dus0
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