Certain things make me think that there are great things well beyond science.

[AtheistCrusader]

52. Well, from my perspective

it means inventing a perception that doesn't actually exist.

I know how the solar system is laid out. The relative distances, masses, sizes of the planets, Sol, and many of the larger non-planet masses that orbit the sun. I can model it for you. I can calculate where certain objects will be 50 years into the future, on some specific date and time. All of that is non-subjective.

But to SEE and experience the positions and distances between those objects took a certain morning and a certain sunrise, on a certain fishing boat, with certain identifiable to the naked eye planets in the visible portion of the sky on a clear august morning.

For a moment, I could literally see the plane of the solar system. I felt impossibly small. It was a simultaneously clarifying AND disorienting experience. I imagine, similar to the experience of seeing, with the naked eye, a creature the size of a school bus coming up out of an environment you don't normally see through, and showing itself to you.

I get the wonder, I get the emotions, I get the difference between knowing facts, and experiencing them. I just don't invest any more meaning in the thing. It doesn't change the thing. It doesn't change the universe. It simply colors my subjective interpretation of the thing.