It appears the stars are spinning through the night. There's nothing your senses can detect that says otherwise. You also know the sun moves, and have built a monument to showcase this movement - every Winter and Summer the sun will shine precisely so.
But this is all illusion.
It is we who are spinning, though you could never tell - do you feel like you're spinning at a thousand miles an hour?
So here's the amusing truth of it: You must have faith that science is true, or at least is the path of truth. That it is not the stars or sun spinning, but us, goes against your common sense. It goes against all intuition. It goes against our language - we say the sun rises and sets, when in truth it does no such thing. But you can't tell, you can't feel or see or hear the Earth whirling around in space.
And so you must have faith. In Science. Amen.
2 comments:
Fireflies! That's no illusion. Although that shot is still hard to believe.
They're not actually on fire.
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