Eyesight Limited Yet The View Ever Clearer

Not all messages are lost in translation.

How would a scientist explain to unscientific minds the invisible reality of cells, protons and nuclei?

Perhaps the scientist would use descriptive language in place of scientific language.

Perhaps the scientist would use metaphor, analogy and examples understood by their audience in conveying things that would need imagining in order to be understood.

The unscientific mind may never have the opportunity to look through a microscope and view the seemingly invisible microscopic world.

The person who is unable to conceptualize what is unseeable to the naked eye, and is suspicious of the scientist (or their language of strange ideas), may possibly dismiss the explanations as untrue or other ideas.

Seeing is believing for many people.

What about the things that are not visible, or difficult to 'see' without the aid of special instruments?

What about what has yet to be measured by any of man's intelligent instruments?

What about ideas and concepts that people hold to be true, yet are yet unprovable by scientific method or expected results?

Energy is largely invisible yet methods exist to somehow 'measure' it.

You can 'feel' the energy emitted from the sun... it feels 'hot'.

Yet it is the 'light' that 'carries' the energy, the heat being a byproduct of that light's energy.

Can you see all the light that exists?

The human eye is limited in 'seeing' the full spectrum of what is called 'light'.

This means there is more 'light' (or what is defined as light) in existence than is humanly perceived.

Much how there is a spectrum of color, and of sound, there is a spectrum of light.

I wonder if there is yet still more light beyond the human's method of measuring.

As certain animals can 'hear' beyond the human spectrum of hearing, the human has their limit in 'seeing', 'hearing', and thus people have their limits in understanding through first-hand and direct experience what exists in this life of ours.

Albert Einstein was capable of conceptualizing ideas correct and accurate which were only later to be proven.

The math at the time was not able to 'prove' his ideas and what was understood by his mind as correct...but correct it was.

Nikola Tesla also had ideas which were largely unfounded in the minds of others, yet that man's discoveries are used today in a large way (wireless transmission being one).

In recent times, we have someone called Elon Musk who, similar to Albert and Nikola, is onto ideas that are typically beyond the purview of others; conceptualizing what is considered impossible or improbable by others.

Are these and so many others extraordinary human beings?

Maybe...maybe not.

What they have received could be called gifts and talents.

Such gifts and talents are developed from a kernel, a sowed seed.

And we all have been given, in my opinion, possibly more than a single gift or talent.

The human has their part to do; watering, managing, pruning; work.

We won't all be Einsteins, Teslas or Musks, but we do have our unique place in the world.

We won't all be scientists, but we can be specialists of many things.

We (you) exist for a reason and a purpose, and that reason / purpose is likely not insignificant, but likely very important and very significant.

Even one who simply fetches water for the village, or simply for a single elder, can be excellent in their single work.

Do you allow the water to become dirty, or contaminated, or be exposed to too much sun light and thus begin to grow things which may later harm the human body?

We have roles to play out in this life.

The fetcher of water may also relate an event that occurred at the watering hole to that elder who is unable to see things for themselves due to their age and frailty.

The water fetcher is now the elder's eyes outside the home...and ears, and arms and legs and voice.

Although that elder may live in a place where education of the invisible things are not widespread, never having heard of Einstein and gravitational waves, nor Tesla and wireless communication, and likely will never see or enjoy an electric car, or news about a trip to Mars, or how the sun's light is now turned into solar energy, etc., they likely already knew about not letting the water sit in the sun for too long...and many other practical stores of wisdom.

What the scientist can explain in detail about how this life functions beyond the visible, albeit from a limited view as we've realized regarding the hidden and invisible things, the elder may understand... simply in another way, another language, yet still navigating the world and surviving, maybe even thriving.

And what can be explained in a thousand words as to 'why' too much sunlight in water may grow algae, that elder can explain 'why' in very few words... and both are correct.


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