Knower p6

"Life, the experience that gives you fun, love, sorrow, and the very things that are so annoying they could piss off a happy meal."~S.C.

I has been awhile since I have posted, but the reason is because I have been busy, go figure. School has been going well, for the most part. One ToK class we went to the planetarium because a few kids in our class were really interested in our relation to the rest of the universe. The Earth/Space Science and Astronomy teacher at our school gave the class insight. He guided the class through the cosmos. We started with Earth's address, and we backed out slowly to draw on a previous model we have seen and the relation to that. We left our solar system to look at your galaxy then further out to see multiple galaxies. He discussed The Big Bang Theory (not the TV show), and the origins of life and the possibilities for other life in the universe. He also showed us a model of what Hubble's deep space images look like. While doing this he kept his beliefs out of the classroom and at the end shared his personal thoughts. He always specified it what he was telling us was Fact, or Belief.

The problem with that is in a previous ToK class we talked about the linking questions/words in "Knower p1". Between Belief, Certainty, and Truth we also discussed what are facts and that facts don't truly exist. Nor to laws or parameters. There is no limit, so that doesn't define us to a set limit or an infinite limit, but perhaps a mixture, just as the way we really do have it now. Giving the teacher respect we let him talk. A big question at the end is how do we know for "certain" that the "facts" and information he gives us is "true". He responded with with the scientific response of what certain affects or science can explain this, he also said that there is a chance to be completely wrong, because the "Laws" of Physics and the Earth are very possible to not be the same somewhere else in the universe.

I didn't find this class to enlightening for myself because I did already know the material from watching countless hours of the Science Channel. My cup of tea is theoretical astronomical physics, and this last year for a few months there was a big special on just that. Sir Steven Hawking has my complete focus as well as other physicists. It takes a certain type of person to be a theoretical physicist, a person that is willing to question everything we know, everything we don't know; willing to scrap the table and start anew from the basics with the new technology that is here today. These people are the ones I connect with. I recall always, and even now, asking Why? and How?