AoK 2 - Natural Sciences: Chloe Chan

“Everything you have learned as ‘obvious’ becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe.”

The things we have found out and labeled as understandable in the world begins to get harder to understand and more ambiguous the deeper we dig (into explaining the world).

I think this quote is trying to say that in our environment when we were younger we slowly developed our understanding of the world around us and in developing we began to reason logically, and this soon become common sense or in this case ‘obvious’. But in studying science (an understanding of our world), the theories proposed are not definite as there is no real proof of the theories existence as most theories are only a build on logic upon logic.

Taking the existence of atoms and its structure as an example, atoms cannot be seen and it is only assumed that they exist as they explain or fit in with every experiment initiated to test their existence, and every other finding before and after it. Therefore the reasoning used behind the theory is something obvious but the actual existence of this theory is not as obvious as there is no firm proof.