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37CHAPTER 5 Our blind spots THIS REMARKABLE EXAMPLE is far from being an isolated one. Hundreds of scientists and philosophers sincerelyshare this vision. Science itself goes through an identity crisis becauseof its very own hypothetical speculations and instrumental empiri-cism. It is important to understand that the eye cannot see reality! Sci-ence and its history have been, and still are, fundamentally bound todiscover reality. However, science and its history are viscerallydependent on visual observations. The eye is the most complex organafter the brain and contains the largest number of nervous fibers. Thebrain has gradually conformed to the information it receives from theother senses. However, it is the eye that is by far our most importantsource of information about the world around us. The other senses areoften the poor parents of the matrix master, confirming what he sees orbowing down before him if their information is different. They are thevassals of the “lord of perception”! The proof lies in the fact that ulti-mately, all scientific instruments translate physical magnitudesthrough a filter: the visual information of the instrumental readout. Just as curtailed information transmitted by the media becomes true and then prevalent after being repeated to the public a thousandtimes, space is misinformation that man has kept in existence eversince the dawn of science. The same filter applies: the eye! Think about it! It is a genuine Pavlov reflex. Only what is visually verifiable is true! This is so persistent that we need sketches to under-stand how the universe works. I am also resorting to this useful butquite incomplete technique. However, if a picture is worth a thousandwords, a contact is worth a thousand pictures! My insistence onapproaching our intrinsic problem, on speaking about our blind spots,