English reading of the book, The Book of General Ignorance.
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Introduction. There is an idea going about that the human race basically understands how the universe works, not you and me, obviously, but scientists perhaps or experts regrettably. This is not the case in the words of Thomas Edison, the man who didn't invent the light bulb, we don't know a millionth of 1% about anything. This book is for people who know, they don't know very much. It contains hundreds of things that the average person doesn't know, but it doesn't begin to scratch the surface of human ignorance because it's the kind of stuff that has answers. The really interesting questions aren't like that. What is life? Nobody knows what is light or love or laughter. It's a very well kept secret which they don't teach you at school that nobody has the faintest notion what gravity is or consciousness or electricity or viruses. We don't know why there is something and not nothing and we do not know either how or why the universe began worse. 96% of the universe appears to be missing. The world is not solid, it is made of empty space and energy, but nobody knows what energy is. And they're beginning to suspect there is no such thing as emptiness. One of the many things we don't understand is what is interesting. The Romans interestingly had no word for interesting. Nobody has ever successfully defined what interesting this actually is or worked out. Why. What you don't know is much more interesting than what you do know, biologists say our primal drives of food, sex and shelter. No difference from the animals. We say there is 1/4 drive which makes us uniquely human curiosity. Porcupines do not worry about the meaning of existence. Moths and art works do not look up at the night sky and wonder what the two inhibits are. People do. In the words of wh or those who run to the edge to explain our behavior are chuckle heads too dumb to know their *** from a hole in the ground. The human brain is the most complex single object in the cosmos. It can make more connections than there are positively charged particles in the visible universe. Nobody knows why it is so massively complicated or what we supposed to do with all that astonishing computing power at Q I. We think we know the answer, ask more questions. Here are 230 of them.