Yet people seem to get a tremendous emotional kick out of not knowing something.
This emotional kick in response to mystical answers could be an adaptation to help people go along with the religious beliefs of the tribe. But don’t you get any kind of emotional kick from this:
Imagine a graph that shows both space and time, so that a straight line shows steady movement and a curved line shows acceleration. Then curve the graph paper itself.
Wow! Curve the graph paper itself, how fascinating! All that’s happened is the mysticism has been better hidden. Now we are to believe it is possible (or even meaningful) to bend nothing (empty space), that is, to bend a concept. :)
ETA: I knew this would be downvoted as it seems to disagree with what is regarded as established science, but can anyone articulate why this is wrong?
This emotional kick in response to mystical answers could be an adaptation to help people go along with the religious beliefs of the tribe. But don’t you get any kind of emotional kick from this:
Wow! Curve the graph paper itself, how fascinating! All that’s happened is the mysticism has been better hidden. Now we are to believe it is possible (or even meaningful) to bend nothing (empty space), that is, to bend a concept. :)
ETA: I knew this would be downvoted as it seems to disagree with what is regarded as established science, but can anyone articulate why this is wrong?