Human science is like a peg board experiment.
Bear with me, this is gunna get complex but nowhere near as complex as the Universe.
You have a room.
On one wall there is a square hole with a painted blue square around it.
On the same wall there is a dispenser tray.
On the floor is a bunch of blue square pegs.
A toddler is the subject (if you don't like a toddler make the subject a chimp er something).
You come in, greet the toddler and offer him a single gummy bear.
He gobbles it up.
You then make sure the toddler is watching, pick up one of the blue square pegs and slip it inside the hole with the blue square around it.
There is only ever 1 hole.
A bell dings and a single gummy bear falls onto the dispenser.
You reach in, get the gummy and give it to the child.
after he gobbles it up you point at another square blue peg.
The child picks it up.
You point at the square blue box on the wall.
The child inserts the peg into the hole and a bell dings and a single gummy pops out onto the dispenser tray.
The child grabs the gummy and gobbles it up.
You exist the room.
The child then inserts every square blue peg into the hole in the wall and gets a ding and a gummy each time.
The toddler is removed from the room.
The room is reset.
The square hole on the wall is still there but now there is no blue square around it.
There is an assortment of pegs on the floor with different colors but the square peg is still blue.
The toddler is put back into the room but you stay outside, out of sight.
The toddler tries a few pegs but they will not fit and they are not blue.
Then the toddler tries the blue square peg in the square hole in the wall and the bell dings and he gets another gummy.
The toddler is removed from the room.
The room is reset.
The square hole on the wall is still there but now there is a blue square around it again.
There is an assortment of pegs on the floor with different colors but the square peg is now red.
The toddler is put back into the room but you stay outside, out of sight.
The child immediately tries the blue circle peg in the wall but it won't fit.
He tries peg after peg with no ding and no gummy.
He finally picks up the red square peg and ends up with a ding and a gummy.
The toddler is removed from the room.
The room is reset.
The square hole on the wall is still there but now there is no blue square around it.
There is an assortment of pegs on the floor but all pegs are blue.
The toddler is put back into the room but you stay outside, out of sight.
The child tries every peg till he gets a gummy but this time, no ding.
The toddler is removed from the room.
The room is reset.
The square hole on the wall is still there but now there is no blue square around it.
There is an assortment of pegs on the floor but they are slices of the pegs.
The square peg must be assembled before being inserted in the wall.
The child attempts to insert one square slice into the wall, it fits but its very loose.
No ding, No gummy.
The child must learn to assemble the small square pegs into the square peg which fits the hole.
Nobody shows him how to do it.
He tries and tries but no ding, no gummy till the assembled square peg is inserted.
The variations on this peg test can go on for quite some time.
As the child succeeds, his knowledge and understanding increase.
Each deviation requires the ability to think in a way he didn't before.
Each win confirms his understanding.
Each loss hinders his progress but increases his understanding of what doesn't work.
Right now, science is the child trying to put pegs in a wall.
Its gaining ground and getting its ding and gummy bear but at a slow pace.
As we grow in understanding we tackle harder and harder science.
But we are still toddlers playing with pegs.
If we ignore the unknown or assume it can't be, we lose part of our knowledge needed to uncover new concepts.
If we never look at something or dismiss it too soon, we hinder our progress.
Science can be wrong and still be science.
At one time, we didn't know what an atom was.
Then, as our knowledge and understanding grew we eventually split that atom.
Now we know particles exist.
We are still trying pegs in the hole but now we found new particles.
If we stop, we stagnate.
So, we keep looking for more particles and continue to put pegs in the wall.
The atom and the particles always existed only we did not possess the knowledge and understanding.
The main difference is we never had anyone show us.
We had to figure it all out on our own.
We did that by using our imagination.
We did that by seeing reality and asking ...
Why?
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