Science Forums 2

[Little Bang]

I’m going to tell an elaborate fictional story to explain why few people can ( THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX).

You and I are very good friends and you are one of my employees. I own hundreds of corporations. You work with me in the main office of my vast empire. Every work day I come by your house ( located somewhere in the US ) out in the country and you drive me to the office. Almost every Sunday afternoon we have a get together with friends at your house and play poker. I spend the night in your guest room on Sunday nights because it is usually late when we break up the game.

The next morning we get dressed, have breakfast then go out to your car and head to work. As your driving along I ask,” Why are you driving on the wrong side of the road? “ You respond, “ I don’t understand, I’m driving on the right side of the road. “ I reply, “ Your on the right side of the road but your supposed to be driving on the left. “

At this point everything in your brain tells you that I’ve lost my mind. You can’t envision any scenario that would allow you to be wrong and me to be right. Unbeknownst to you six months earlier I hired a company to buy a piece of land in Europe and reproduce everything about you home and the landscape around it. The night of the poker game I slipped you a mickey just before you went to bed, loaded you on a jet and flew you to the duplicate home in Europe.

Thinking outside our box requires that we be willing to evaluate the string of memories ( for possible errors ) used to arrive at a conclusion. That being said then why isn’t it possibly that some of our scientific conclusions may be in error. An example might be the plethora of short lived subatomic particles found over the past forty years is astounding. Why isn’t there a possibility that all those particles may be repeatable waveforms ( repeatable in a certain percentage of collisions and energies ) that appear to have charge and mass? No one knows what an electromagnetic wave looks like so how do we know for certain that there are no short lived waveforms that exhibit charge and mass?