Day_i_lost_faith_in_science
I studied physics and astronomy at the University of Maryland. There were two resaons. First, I was good and mathematics and enjoyed using it. Second, I wanted to know the answer to the big questions: what is reality and where did it come from. But one afternoon completely changed my mind.
There had been a thunderstorm, but it was over and the sun had come out again. There were puddles of rain on the paths across the university mall. A person on a bike rode through the puddle and it threw a trail of drops of water behind the tire of the bike. The drops sparkled as they caught the light of the setting sun.
I know what had happened according to the laws of physics: the transfer of momentum from the tire to the water. I could write the equations describing it. But it struck me how different these equations were from what I saw. And I remembered the lines from Faust:
All theory in gray
Green is life's ever blossoming tree
What was real was what I saw before me. No theory, no system of equations could ever be reality. And science, although useful, was not the door to reality, it was a detour away from it. And so I lost my faith in science and decided there must be another path to the truth.