This is what I think; we as a species don’t know ‘jack’, we twist and bend everything around us into a formula we can understand, and then preach it as fact because it is the consensus. We have been taught since birth we have so many limitations that hold back the mental growth process. The only time we see any form of progress in our understandings is by ‘rouge’ thinkers who step away from the restrictions we have self imposed. Einstein was one, Tesla was one, Edison, Bell, Marconi and the list goes on and on, the list would be greater if our history books were correct but that is another story.
We have many innovational thinkers whose theories have been ignored because they go against the accepted ‘Laws’ that are believed to be fact. There are some who have been able to gain public awareness, a group of which have participated in TEDtalks (Technology-Entertainment-Design) and have been able to reach a large audience. Two of the participants of TED touched on what I have briefly described above, one being
Dawkins who talks a little about What we can understand.
"Queerer Than We Suppose: The strangeness of science," he suggests that the true nature of the universe eludes us, because the human mind evolved only to understand the "middle-sized" world we can observe.
Dawkins also suggests we start our children thinking in a direction we are only starting to imagine possible.
The other is
David Deutsch, in his book ‘The Fabric of Reality’ he goes into much more detail, but in this talk, he does touch on a couple of fallacies.
One example brought up is a very fitting example, Gravity has been here since the beginning, and it took Man thousands of years to discover it. Newton did not invent gravity, it has always been here, he was only able to comprehend it and finally explain it in a manner man could understand. This 'Law' is not irrefutable, even though this was essentially replaced by Einstein's general relativity,
But what if Newton was wrong? It's a long-standing question whether his law of gravity, supposed to explain everything from falling apples to spinning galaxies, might actually be flawed. That is the claim of a growing number of physicists who support a controversial alternative theory called modified Newtonian dynamics, or MOND. The theory has recently overcome some serious problems that had plagued it since its inception - such as how it fits with general relativity - and it is now able to make surprising predictions about the evolution of the universe. Everything we know will change, but only if we allow ourselves to evolve the way in which we think. Hanging, burning at the stake, crucifixion, stoning and lynching are ways we treated innovative thinkers in the past; today the treatment isn’t as blatant but just as effective. Being labeled a crackpot by colleagues or being silenced by money hungry entities of great power because change will do to much damage, is no better than that listed above.
I know one response is going to be ‘so you believe anything without evidence that it's true?’ and the answer is, of course not. I will not however dismiss it immediately because it goes against another accepted theory. Believing in possibilities does not mean belief in anything that is presented or discussed, it is for me, the understanding that everything is not black and white and as Shaw puts it “all great truths begin as blasphemies” .
