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Talk about mind over matter. I've always wondered how exactly thoughts could influence our physical well-being so directly... Especially stress. How could stress-inducing thoughts fire off the release of certain neurotransmitters that result in the release of particular chemicals that produce physiological/ behavioral evidence of stress? Or are the chemicals resulting in the thoughts? Or is this whole thing worded much too incoherently to be followed? Probably. It's been a long day. In any case, it's amazing what happens when outside stress is taken away.

I love science and the history of it. It's not until you read about the actual theorizing processes behind much of modern science that you appreciate the fact that most scientists are nutjobs. So much of science is driven by competition, individual egos and pride. So much of what has been suggested in the past to explain natural phenomenon seem too ridiculous to believe... But then again, most of what we're taught today seems too ridiculous to believe. Am I really supposed to believe that I'm composed of tiny particles that I can't see? That negatively charged particles are attracted to compact positive centers and that they travel in standing waves? That when I touch a door or sit down, I'm not actually touching anything? I mean, hell... If we're made mostly of empty space, how come we can't walk through walls? How do I know that atoms really exist? I can see "evidence" of them in particle accelerators, but so what? What does it really mean? It's hard to place faith in something that we can't even see, that we have no direct evidence of. Yet we do it all the time, just because authority figures with the right degrees tell us so.

But I guess that's another neat thing about science... It's not really the absolute truth. It's just one systematic way of processing that we impose on the world- another way to label and categorize it. We can have fun changing things around and adopting new explanations of how things really work as we reach dead ends and find new routes to get around them.