Few years back, in our college days, during one of the many unfruitful, silly discussions and chat sessions, this topic about extra terrestrial life came up and we found ourselves going on and on about aliens, their possible anatomy and appearance. One of my close friends (a very funny guy, who never made me feel he was serious about what he said) made a statement which went like this "Hey, may be aliens are on this planet right now and we are not able to 'see' them". It came to me as a jolt. I didn't expect that from him, because the magnitude of depth his statement carried didn't reflect in the manner in which he uttered it. For me, the world vanished for a moment; I felt as if I was thrown in to a shell which completely enveloped me and my mind was buzzing with thoughts and the possible ramifications of the words he spoke. I thought - We perceive a Universe which is so limited, so subjective to our senses, that we are living our life assuming the world to be the way it 'seems' and I am not restricting this to our senses alone. This applies to every measuring instrument, every sensor used to make an 'observation'; To sum it up, it includes all the equipments, devices made by man which have helped to understand the world around him. This particular thought puts to question every single law, every phenomenon that we have taken for granted.
We are crippled by our own senses! What we perceive of this Universe is what our senses show us. ..to be contd
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