[Robert]

Originally Posted by Robert

We evolved in an environment that allows us to operate within a very small range of reality. We operate in the realm of seconds where reality spans from planck time to billions of years to possibly the absence of time. We hear and see within a very narrow band of frequencies compared to what is available. We operate in a gravitational field of 1G where the effects of space-time warping is negligible. Reality consists of so much more than what our senses indirectly tell us. Indirectly because of all the signal conversions and transformation by brain processes that take place before the signal ever reaches the part of our brain where they can be interpreted. And our interpretation is based on so many other factors--hormones, neurotransmitter levels, genes, conditioning, education, conscious state, etc--that the way we interpret those signals is highly variable and suspect. What other senses are we missing and don't even realize it. What are the objects behind our perception of them. It would seem we live in a world of illusion and don't even know it.

Here is a quote from Michio Kaku's book, "Parallel Worlds" - page 40, that is very similar to my own.

Originally Posted by Michio Kaku

The reason that relativity violates our common sense is not that relativity is wrong, but that our common sense does not represent reality. We are the oddballs of the universe. We inhabit an unusual piece of real estate, where temperatures, densities, and velocities are quite mild. However, in the "real universe," temperatures can be blisteringly hot in the center of stars, or numbingly cold in outer space, and subatomic particles zipping through space regularly travel near light-speed. In other words, our common sense evolved in a highly unusual, obscure part of the universe, Earth; it is not suprising that our common sense fails to grasp the true universe. The problem lies not in relativity but in assuming that our common sense represents reality."