Ah ok, and that makes perfect sense. You can feel alone in a room of people and feel great by yourself. Perception vs reality sort of argument. I think I’ll actually read this one, thanks!

Yeah so i always wonder about this. Is it social isolation, or is it lack of mental stimulation? If you’re not engaging with your world, isn’t that more important than if you’re just alone?

Yeah lol. Ok so now I have a question for you. If a balloon is in the back of a covered trunk, no air influence from the outside, and the truck turns left, which way does the balloon go? It’s tied to a string inside the trunk.

Ok I’m back lol. And I do agree: the night sky should be bright if the universe was static, as was assumed in 1900. But we looked for explanations and stumbled upon the expanding universe, which then led to the creation of the Big Bang hypothesis. I don’t know if we can say that philosophy drove the gear for the explanation, but it certainly set about something that then had to be explained, so I see where you’re coming from

I disagree intuitively but let me actually think about this for a bit and come back to it. You might have a good point, I just haven’t ever thought of it

Nope. The advent of the Big Bang theory stemmed from Hubble work. He saw a receding universe from our perspective, then it was postulated that the universe must have been small at some point logically. It wasn’t philosophical, it was data driven.

Dan Carlin did an insanely great podcast on this whole thing called ‘supernova in the East’. I suggest it to everyone but I am now suggesting it to you. It’s 5 episodes at 3-4 hours a piece and super interesting.