Posted: Mar 07, 2011 4:16 am
Oldskeptic wrote:Every part of my common sense tells me that this can't happen, but my skepticism runs into a wall when reality shows my common sense to be somewhat unreliable.
Good man! It's important to be skeptical - but it's just as important to be open-minded and consider real-world evidence. The job of science is not to make things behave as we think they should, but to try and explain what we observe.