Has Science and Reason Taken Away Some of the "Mysticisim" of the world for you?

Don't get me wrong, I love science, I love logic, and facts. However, when I was a kid, I was enthralled with history and mythology. Mummies curses, witchcraft/wizardry, the Greek Pantheon, Norse Mythology etc. As a kid, into my early teens this stuff added "magic"and "mysticism" to the world for me. The world seemed exciting with so many supernatural possibilities. Enter science disproving all of it, and removing the "whimsy" from the world. Sort of like when a kid finds out Santa and the Easter Bunny aren't real. While I've found that science can be exciting in many ways (I was also always into science), it's not the same type of mystery and whimsy that something like the Greek Pantheon, Egyptian curses, and yes even Santa Claus brings. Now when I watch a movie like "The Mummy" my head just starts disproving it with science and facts I've learned. Bleh... anyone else experience this?

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ElwoodBlues · M

Nope. Just the opposite. I've studied both astrophysics & quantum mechanics, and for me the universe is more filled with mystery than ever before!

Hubble Ultra Deep Field
This view of nearly 10,000 galaxies is called the Hubble Ultra Deep Field. The snapshot includes galaxies of various ages, sizes, shapes, and colours. The smallest, reddest galaxies, about 100, may be among the most distant known, existing when the universe was just 800 million years old. The nearest galaxies - the larger, brighter, well-defined spirals and ellipticals - thrived about 1 billion years ago, when the cosmos was 13 billion years old.

The image required 800 exposures taken over the course of 400 Hubble orbits around Earth. The total amount of exposure time was 11.3 days, taken between Sept. 24, 2003 and Jan. 16, 2004.

https://esahubble.org/images/heic0611b/

ShadowWolf · 31-35, M

@ElwoodBlues Do you think that exploring it will be possible, considering Einstein's theory of relativity? For example, when approaching the speed of light, which is a defined boundary of speed for the universe, an object with mass becomes infinite and requires infinite energy? Do you think a warp drive is a possible solution?

ElwoodBlues · M

@ShadowWolf It wouldn't surprise me if the speed of light was an ultimate limit. That would explain why we haven't already been visited by billion year old civilizations. And so much of the universe will remain mysterious even as we learn more and model and predict more.

ShadowWolf · 31-35, M

@ElwoodBlues I have to agree. The Fermi Paradox illustrates this.

SomeMichGuy · M

@ElwoodBlues Wow!

I met M, T & W and got to attend a special lecture by Stephen. Pretty neat.