and particularly in physics is that we as humans tend to always analyze through our senses and our "reality". In other words we progress through or create experiments to fit with our general thinking of what is length, height etc., what is "measurement", what is imaginable, what we physically see, hear, feel etc. We use this "screening" using the idea that things need to make sense. Yet what made "sense" by the science of the time 400 years ago is laughable now. Coming from an engineering education I always caution people to use the phrase "based on what we know so far" when talking about scientific matters. Engineers are taught that they don't know what they don't know and it is a truism to live by because there will always be more to know.
All while thinking we are getting to the heart of "how things are" when in fact if we open our minds and consider that what is in front of our eyes, the world our sense of sight let's us see is not what is "there" at all. Also what we can comprehend or imagine is a self limit that is not constrained by true reality. For example other life on this planet experiences the world/reality in ways we don't. Such as sensitivity to sound, light, force etc. and we have no idea of some of the how and why and what beyond our understanding of physics is there. Do conditions such as waves, forces etc. exist that we do not know because our instrumentation to "detect/measure" is inadequate? Are there more than the strong and weak forces we know?
In other words our endeavors in physics to "explain the world" may only be looking on a small part of what or how everything really is. There is no reason to think that atomic theory or particle physics precludes any other number of fascinating things about reality that we aren't even aware of yet in a similar way that our ancestors of 400 years ago had no idea atoms/particles existed. I thank you Uncle Joe for putting this up for me to ponder. Please don't tell anybody about me being here from the future. People keep pestering me for stock tips.
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