What! You don't believe her Royal Highness QE II is a shape-shifting reptilian? Of course she is. :wink2:
Seriously though, what could be weirder and more off-the-wall than quantum physics? Black holes, electrons being in two different places at the same time, Bell's inequality. Who needs all this new-age bollocks?
In fact, what could be weirder than the physical universe period? All these particles, protons for example, trillions of trillions of trillions of them, and all identical to one another. What's all that about? Why?
Yah. I remember taking high school physics, and being told that an electron has a negative charge, and a proton a positive charge. I was thinking "but you haven't explained ANYTHING". You've just given names to a phenomenon. Yes, positive charge is attracted to negative charge, but what IS charge? All you have done is given a name to an unknown. Same with energy. It can convert into different forms. There's potential energy, and kinetic energy, and the total amount of energy is conserved when it converts from one form to another. OK, that can allow you to create technological devices. But it doesn't EXPLAIN anything. It just labels everything in a way that allows you to manipulate it easily. "No, we DO know what energy is. It's the capacity to do work". "So what is work?" "It's the conversion of energy from one form to another". Then I realised that science is not about understanding reality. It's about finding ways to USE reality.