Musings. Things are not as they seem.
Entanglement and a lot of other quantum mechanics, relativity stuff hardly seem possible, they are so non-intuitive.
Dinesh DeSouza brought up the thinking of a philosopher who also advanced ideas that were not intuitive. He argued that we knew our perceptions, but not things in themselves. The best example I can give is a solid object - say a granite countertop. We experience it to be solid and many believe it to be solid. But if you consider the space between molecules, and the empty spaces within atoms, it seems that the countertop is mostly empty space.
The idea that there was no “before” the big bang is also counter-intuitive to many people. Jewish and Christian theologians concluded a long time ago that there was no time before creation.
It seems that many of us do not know as much as we think we do.
Did you really just say that our knowledge of a granite countertop must be counter-intuitive? ;-)