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Mmmmmm, Josh.
Well, Kepler was convinced that the movement of the heavens had a direct bearing on our individual lives, so much so that it drove him to work with Tycho and ultimately come up with his "laws" of celestial motion (hidden for many years, one might add, in amongst a lot of astrological hocus pocus and wishful thinking). Science is always a bit of a con job: it really only finds better ways of describing in a predictable fashion things that we can never fully understand. Newton didn't say anything that we didn't know intuitively anyway when he first described the laws of gravity. Action at a distance still remains one of the universe's greatest mysteries. We feel happier being able to measure it more accurately is all (rather than ascribing it to Leibniz's "vortices" or God's angels.)
Yours,
The essentially unknowable Brian.
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