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When as a young lad I first attended lectures in Quantum Mechanics back in the late sixties I was actually scared of the implications. The whole 'real' Universe seemed to rest on indeterminate 'particles' or 'wave functions' of very doubtful parentage.
Some time later black holes at one stage were mere figments of someones extrapolation.
Now we know far more and consequentially far less.
We can only learn by observation.
We live in very interesting times. In less than my lifetime Hoyle first postulated nucleosythesis of the elements in stars and supernovae. The encoding of the information of the life we are all a part of was found to be DNA in the early fifties.
We amateur astronomers have tickets to the show but the best seats are up the front with the biggest and best detectors/instruments.
We have only begun to understand. I for one will watch the show with great interest.......
Bert
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