Scientific Knowledge and a New World-View
Even though we know that this world consists of atoms and waves and forces and strange space time distortions and even stranger quantum states, we still live our daily life happily ignoring these facts. We approach our day to day with a very simplified view of the world – what goes up must come down, and the world is just as our eyes tell us it is. Our brains can’t readily make the connection between abstract science concepts and the mundane.
Yet i wonder, if people that are submerged into the world of abstract science all day long, don’t start to see and hear and feel the world around them in a different way.
This is a collection of quotes from scientists and thinkers.
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“We are so familiar with causality as an underlying feature of reality that we hardwire it into the laws of physics. It might seem that this would be unnecessary, but it turns out that the laws of physics do not distinguish between time going backward and time going forward. And so we make a choice about which sort of physical law we would like to have.”
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(via The Accidental Universe by Alan Lightman)
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