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You’ll have to learn a whole lot more about what we do know before your skepticism about what we don’t know holds much weight with other people.

The Higgs field and neutrinos are examples of things which we now know definitely exist but are extremely difficult to detect or barely interact with the EM which makes up most of our experience of the universe.

Skepticism of something we can’t see simply because we can’t see it should be tempered because there is plenty of precedence for difficult to detect things which end up very confidently real.

PBS Space Time YouTube videos are a good way to get initial exposure to a lot of what we know now.

I know how you feel, i have some questions about black holes i haven’t found satisfying answers to myself. The only solution is going to be teaching myself general relativity math and doing some simulations, which may or may not ever happen.



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