Or why Douglas Adams' notion of Magrathea and custom built planets is the most promising theory ever.

Standing at crossroads makes you think. The streets full of pedestrians, walking to someplace, to fulfill some goal. You see the roads we've built, the houses we've built. More than that, you see the intricate social system we've developed. I wake up i the morning, go to school do what I'm told to do, live up to society's expectations. Millions of people go to work everyday. Their all different, these people, they do different work, they have different opinions. But they have something in common. Something we all have in common. We all live under a common delusion. We ignore the world that we live n so vastly, that ignorance is not even a strong enough word for it. Our daily activities are cleverly designed to ignore the fabric of the universe we live. This is the great delusion, and this is what today's post is about. To take a break from the addictive exhaustiveness of physics, I spent 4 days doing nothing but biology. Mostly because I had a test coming up. During this time, I started observing more of the human brain, something I am known to do from time to time. Because only if you understand how you perceive things can you understand truly what is being observed. And I realized a fairly scary truth. Our brain has limitations. Physical limitations. There's things we just cannot imagine, no matter how hard we try. Take the universe for example. Can you picture a universe without planet earth? No buildings, no radioshacks, no Burger Kings. What about the world without matter? Just vast stretches of empty space. Possibly. But what about nothing? Can you imagine nothing? Not just empty space but true nothingness. A nothingness you can't measure, no lengths, no distances, no time, just true nothingness. You can't. The great delusion has hardwired our brain to ignore the universe entirely. Its like a system lockout, There's things like multiple dimensions, slowing down time, wormholes, that are just impossible to imagine, because we are programmed to just be simple social animals who have no meaning in the cosmic context, and are meant to make meaning to each other only. We ignore by design. Even physicists who have a fairly good idea of the workings of the universe almost always don't use that in real life. Our ignorance is so huge, we manage to ignore our ignorance too. The line between real life and physics is so blurry, its impossible to see. Looking at a man pass down the street, talking to his friends, maybe planning to go out for dinner later, and how much his ignorance towards the universe is. But then, is the universe really worth knowing about? It's what we live in. But so is my room. I never bothered to measure it out, find out what it's made of, where the wires run. Because how irrelevant it was to my daily activities.  Maybe that's the same with universe. Maybe humanity's morbid curiosity bears the seeds of its destruction. (Go ahead, quote this if you want to). Is modern physics needed at all? I don't know. f you think about it, the great delusion is helpful. It provides us with incentive to live on, as without it, without our raw, illogical instincts, we don't have anything to look forward too. It's puzzling, intimidating, but maybe one of these days, someones going to figure this out, and he or she will be the saviour of all humanity. Or maybe we'll just sit around, waiting for the advertisements to end so we can watch another episode of Downton Abbey. I am Daksh Gupta, and as always, never stop asking questions.

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