Mihail Pautov, a scientist, discusses why 99.9% of the universe remains invisible to us. Visible matter like planets and stars makes up only 0.1% of what exists. He describes the unknown as a 'dark forest' and says he struggles to interpret phenomena beyond what evidence shows.
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That here in the Western, very often you want proof and you want to have science people believe numbers, people believe the science and all of this. If you believe in science, then you maybe just listen right now. What the scientists maybe say about their observations about this universe that we have right now, which means that all the matter, everything that we humans see, the planets, the stars, the galaxies, what we see is 0.1% of what is there. So what does it mean? It means 99.9%, or let's say the majority of existence, you don't see. So how can you as a human being say, you know, anything?
I have this kind of questions and conversations with myself because I'm a scientist and it's very hard for me to go beyond the evidence base. The evidence base is something I can't be sure about. The rest for me is like a dark forest. And I'm kind of afraid. I don't know what I can find there. And if what I find I can't interpret in the right way and it seems dangerous for me as a scientist.