1) First of all and the most obvious: Atoms. Even the electron microscope cannot see an atom for the simple fact that an atom is "indivisible"
2) Another is time. Perhaps we can never see time, and can only experience it.
3) Future. Unless you believe that your future is set out for you already. You can never determine your future
4) the Omniscient. I'm not saying outright that I'm an atheist, but the only way for you to get me to believe in God is for you to prove it to me. But that kind of destroys the point of "fate" doesn't it?
5) Memories. Memories are nothing if you can't remember them.
6) What we don't know. If a tree fell down in a forest, then does it make a sound? Well, sure, but we never really know because no one was there to experience it
7) Electricity. Just as we don't know the true sub elements of an atom, we can only guess how electricity works.
8) The "Material" we are made of. We are composed of cells, but the cells that we are composed of replace itself after every 7 years. So is it true that after 7 years, we are a different person?
9) Consciousness. I know that you are "alive" and "thinking," and you can prove it. But can we prove it scientifically if we can't see it?
10) Fundamental forces. Yes. We don't know how gravity works. We don't know why atoms stick to each other. We don't know why atomic bombs go Boom!. And we don't know how magnets really work.
11) Light. Even the equipment that helps us see could not be seen. In fact, only the things that light collide with can be seen. But, light is invisible by itself.
12) And finally, stars. The more light, the less we can see from the night sky.
So, here's a list of detailed things that we cannot see and as an affect, we have no way to prove it. So, what do you think of the world that we cannot see? Us, humans think we got it all under control, but how is it possible if even the most fundamental objects cannot be seen?
By the way, why am I banned from the shoutbox?
ReplyDeleteYes, I think there is insight in the realization that science is based on observations, a less stable and less omnipresent foundation that might at first seem. Science has the promise of solving all our problems, of giving us a complete understanding of our world.
ReplyDeleteBut there is a contradiction to be derived. We can scientifically study our body, and we can analyze the neurons in our brain, but that does not give us any insight into who we are, into what makes us human. It seems intuitively wrong that a human is simply genetic code with an accompanying body. But this is exactly what science says a human is.
So if the people studying science can not be analyzed fully by science, what can? The most important things, ideas, are utterly invisible to science. Science measures only the physical reality of those ideas. You may have a grand vision of a magnificent cathedral, but science denies the existence of that image until the cathedral is built.
But you may argue that science's premise is not to analyze everything; rather, to better our understanding of the physical world. And I agree with this definition. But what exactly do we gain from understanding the physical world and nothing more?
For do we ourselves not transcend the limits of science? How do we use science to affect, to shape the physical world? With ideas, and action, and creativity! Science has no definition for these things, as they are inherently invisible and undefinable. Science's potential is limited in this aspect.
Indeed, from a strictly theoretical point of view, science is merely based on extensions of observations. There is no truth to science other than that a majority of data agrees with the result. This makes science a mathematics of matter, of forces, and of energy. And what foundation in true reality does any sort of mathematics have?
But then, ask yourself, what is this "true reality"?
You are not banned from shoutbox. maybe it's malfunctioning. I was banned too, so I had to get a new code for my shoutbox...
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