A brief little note

 

NGC 2276, from the Hubble web page

I wrote the recent piece about the first question, about why there are differences in the universe, some six months ago. Because my publishing schedule runs well ahead of the material I write, it has only published within the last week or so. And during that same week, coincidentally, the following piece about a giant arc of galaxies appeared in science news.

The importance of this piece is that it posits a fundamental flaw in the mechanistic rationalist explanation of the universe: matter is not, after all, more or less equally distributed throughout the universe on a large scale. That is to say, differences are built into things as a fundamental property. You can't just average them out with a theory and subsequent assumptions, statistics, and math.

Of course, the idea itself is stupid; everywhere we look, matter isn't distributed equally, whether on a small or large scale. NOTHING is distributed "equally." A common idiot can see that. Scientists of the mechanistic rationalist persuasion, however, are uncommon idiots who doggedly insist on interpreting everything according to a single flawed premise.

One could spend a good deal of time contemplating the reason that the universe has produced beings whose superpowers rest in the ability to be absolutely, as opposed to relatively, blind to things that are easy to see. Yet that superpower seems to express itself in human beings so consistently that we can presume it, as well, is a necessary element in the universe; and so rather than feeling angry and frustrated about it, we should probably feel sympathetic towards those with this super power; including, of course, ourselves, because all humans have it—albeit in unequally distributed measure.

Human blindness must serve some important universal purpose we don’t understand.

This brief note recommends that you file this science article in the expanding folder labeled, “everything we think we know is wrong,” and move on.

warmly, 

Lee