Humans tend to believe that reality IS as we experience it: after all, the Sun once "revolved around the Earth." Until it didn't. 

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What seems "obvious" and intuitive is simply because we "know" it from experience. A ball is "heavier" than a feather and therefore falls to the ground faster. Until we put both in a vacuum and they fall at exactly the same speed!

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We are prone to story and often make up stories - consciously or not - to fit observations. "The moon is bigger on the horizon than it is directly overhead. Therefore it must be closer to us on the horizon." Wrong, it's actually an optical illusion. 

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The world of physics, fully embracing Newton's Laws of Motion, at the time was convinced that we lived in an empirically predictable, clockwork universe. It was Einstein who realized that this was only true for objects moving significantly slower than the speed of light - that in fact time and space were not independent but in fact part of a 4-dimensional interdependent time-space. 

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Mark Twain famously wrote, "It's not what you don't know that gets you in trouble. It's what you know that just ain't so." What do we think we know that just ain't so? 

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I believe the single greatest contributor to mankind's ills is due to our misunderstanding of how things really work. We believe they work as we experience them. We make up stories when we are mystified by effects that seem other worldly - like the Gods being angry when they shoot lightning bolts from the sky. 

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