even the most basic paradoxes overwhelm me -
schrodinger's cat - things can be in a dual state at the same time? it can be both dead and alive?
double slit experiment - light is both a wave and a particle?
quantum entanglement - things are spatially apart but actually together, linked via some unseen dimension?
uncertainty principle - as soon as we observe things it changes the nature of the thing we are observing?
some of these concepts are popularized in "new age" books, indicating that science is now finally catching up what the ancients had known through deep thinking. things from history do surprise us, like the incredible antikythera, but to wave off modern scientific achievement as only proof of the probability and connectedness of all of us seems to oversimplify matters...
