{"id":19366,"date":"2022-04-20T23:27:46","date_gmt":"2022-04-20T23:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=19366"},"modified":"2022-04-20T23:51:34","modified_gmt":"2022-04-20T23:51:34","slug":"what-if-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=19366","title":{"rendered":"what if&#8230;?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Court-Painter-what-if-.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19377\" width=\"1000\" height=\"685\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Court-Painter-what-if-.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Court-Painter-what-if--300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Court-Painter-what-if--768x526.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Court Painter considers questions from a thought-provoking article<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Click Link for article<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/i-dont-understand-anything-anymore\/?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=onsite-share&amp;utm_brand=wired&amp;utm_social-type=earned via @wired\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/i-dont-understand-anything-anymore\/?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=onsite-share&amp;utm_brand=wired&amp;utm_social-type=earned via @wired\">https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/i-dont-understand-anything-anymore\/?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=onsite-share&amp;utm_brand=wired&amp;utm_social-type=earned via @wired<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/author\/k-c-cole\">KC COLE<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/category\/ideas\"> <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/category\/ideas\"> <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/category\/ideas\">IDEAS<\/a>  Wired :APR 20, 2022 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Excerpt:<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;One thing I love about science is that much of what\u2019s true, what\u2019s interesting, makes no sense (to us) at all. All of life encoded in some silly spiral ladder of molecules that spells out how to grow, when to stop, whether to flower or swim or study the universe? Give me a break. Curved spacetime doesn\u2019t make sense; time dilation doesn\u2019t make sense; quantum mechanics isn\u2019t even supposed to make sense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So what? They work. Just like evolution. Maybe understanding is knowing what works and what doesn\u2019t\u2014including what works to tame pandemics, put a lid on global warming, better manage war. It is clear that what we&nbsp;<em>are<\/em>&nbsp;doing&nbsp;<em>isn\u2019t<\/em>&nbsp;working.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But understanding is more. It\u2019s a basic need, like breathing, an urge that all (human) beings share. It\u2019s not information. It\u2019s not description. It\u2019s not even explanation. <strong>It requires imagination, awareness, recognition<\/strong>. It\u2019s a feeling as much as anything. I like how it feels to comprehend, in some rough sense, how DNA makes tulips out of dirt and sun. what makes the Milky Way\u2019s arms spiral, why rain falls but clouds and airplanes (generally) don\u2019t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A lot remains uncertain, ambiguous, unknown. That\u2019s fine. I can feel lost and still remain connected, still admire, acknowledge\u2014give my regards!&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p>What if the antidote to fear isn\u2019t understanding?<\/p><p>What if it\u2019s appreciation?<\/p><p>What if it\u2019s beauty?<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Court-Painter-what-if-2-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19378\" width=\"900\" height=\"803\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Court-Painter-what-if-2-copy.jpg 900w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Court-Painter-what-if-2-copy-300x268.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Court-Painter-what-if-2-copy-768x685.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/what-if....jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19379\" width=\"1000\" height=\"553\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/what-if....jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/what-if...-300x166.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/what-if...-768x425.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Court Painter considers questions from a thought-provoking article. 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All of life encoded in some silly spiral ladder of molecules &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=19366\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;what if&#8230;?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-images","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19366"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19385,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19366\/revisions\/19385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}