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CHAPTER Our blind spots THIS REMARKABLE EXAMPLE is far from being an isolated one. Hundreds of scientists and philosophers sincerely share this vision. Science itself goes through an identity crisis because of 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 to discover reality. However, science and its history are viscerally dependent on visual observations. The eye is the most complex organ after the brain and contains the largest number of nervous fibers. The brain has gradually conformed to the information it receives from the a aad ata rr other senses. However, it is the eye that is by far our most important source of information about the world around us. The other senses are often the poor parents of the matrix master, confirming what he sees or bowing down before him if their information is different. They are the vassals of the “lord of perception”! The proof lies in the fact that ulti- mately, all scientific instruments translate physical magnitudes through 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 thousand times, space is misinformation that man has kept in existence ever since 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 but quite incomplete technique. However, if a picture is worth a thousand words, a contact is worth a thousand pictures! My insistence on approaching our intrinsic problem, on speaking about our blind spots, 37