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I say: If no astronomer or scientist can understand "dark energy" responsible for the expansion of the universe, or if no one can decide why gravity exists and acts the way it does... maybe these things don't exist? For a scientific attitude based on so much doubt, we certainly seem to be making a lot of assumptions that are technically theories, but so widely accepted that they are part of our conception of the universe. If you start naming things "dark matter" and "dark energy" because you can't explain them and they are just this big mystery, to me that screams that somewhere someone got off on the wrong foot and everyone followed. You got something wrong!
For my part, I don't believe in gravity. I don't mean that I think I'll be able just to tumble around in space all I want, but the theory doesn't do it for me. I have proof that something out there holds us to Earth because I can't jump very high, and i believe observations that planets are drawn to one another and to other bodies... I just don't believe it's gravity because NO ONE can come up with a semi-decent brainstorm idea about why this thing called gravity should be the explanation! They just made up a word and said "ok this mysterious thing we can't explain shall be called gravity." Because giving it a name makes it sounds concrete and proved and all that. But it's not. I don't buy it.
Now I speak about the universe. Most people, including myself, think of the Universe as this grand end-all-be-all of any sort of existence... of even time and space. How can TIME not exist? It's not a real thing! It's a human conception invented to measure and quantify progress. I'm sure many a brilliant scientist disagrees with me, and I haven't read enough, and I'm sure wouldn't understand enough to argue my point on a scientific level.
But anyway, at MOST people conceive that maybe there are other universes. Parallel ones, twin and binary ones... but what if there's something else, a new form of space or time, or an entirely new creation that none of us has even thought of yet? Who says that creation ended (or began) with the Universe? What if outside the universe there were entirely new forms of matter, energy, time, life? Just as outside our solar system is a galaxy, and outside of that is the universe... I don't know what this new form would be because I can't observe it, and part of Cartesian doubt that defines our scientific process is all about observation.
Why don't people think of these things?
For my part, I don't believe in gravity. I don't mean that I think I'll be able just to tumble around in space all I want, but the theory doesn't do it for me. I have proof that something out there holds us to Earth because I can't jump very high, and i believe observations that planets are drawn to one another and to other bodies... I just don't believe it's gravity because NO ONE can come up with a semi-decent brainstorm idea about why this thing called gravity should be the explanation! They just made up a word and said "ok this mysterious thing we can't explain shall be called gravity." Because giving it a name makes it sounds concrete and proved and all that. But it's not. I don't buy it.
Now I speak about the universe. Most people, including myself, think of the Universe as this grand end-all-be-all of any sort of existence... of even time and space. How can TIME not exist? It's not a real thing! It's a human conception invented to measure and quantify progress. I'm sure many a brilliant scientist disagrees with me, and I haven't read enough, and I'm sure wouldn't understand enough to argue my point on a scientific level.
But anyway, at MOST people conceive that maybe there are other universes. Parallel ones, twin and binary ones... but what if there's something else, a new form of space or time, or an entirely new creation that none of us has even thought of yet? Who says that creation ended (or began) with the Universe? What if outside the universe there were entirely new forms of matter, energy, time, life? Just as outside our solar system is a galaxy, and outside of that is the universe... I don't know what this new form would be because I can't observe it, and part of Cartesian doubt that defines our scientific process is all about observation.
Why don't people think of these things?