8 posts in a row is a record better than 3003.

With great excitement, I noticed, along with my cat,
two globes of nebulous light go through brick walls
and fly slowly below my bedroom ceiling.
That's when I started my amateur study of physics
with a tabula rasa geometric point of view.
Was it a different dimension I had not seen before?
Was it ball lightning or another form of electricity?
I stood on the couch and touched its event horizon,
afraid to stick my hand inside this mysterious sphere.
It went through more walls and I lost track of both.
My first step was to read the book Flatland several times
I could almost see a hypersphere with time and practice.
I remembered the globes made a very faint sound like a high fizz.
Maybe that's why my cat fluffed up, was it a loud ultrasound?
The universe is made of patterns and some of those are just illusions.
I used to think a mirror switched left to right but it's an illusion.
It's just reflecting front to back like looking at someone in front of me.
Were the globes illusions that fooled the cat and me, it wasn't a delusion.
30+ years later I can't rule out that I saw a quantum effect.
If you look at the 'rainbow' side of a DVD you are seeing the quantum behavior
of quantum particles called photons. The grooves on the mirror side act like a double slit
experiment allowing photons to take all paths, unlike a smooth mirror. Different
paths make different colors so we are seeing the quantum field behavior of photons.
The globes are still a mystery but the mystery opened a whole new world.
In this world friends say "I don't know what you are going on about".
Once you've seen positron ions (antimatter) annihilate with your naked eye
it's hard to not look at the world more deeply, completely, and with more questions.

Donald Rumsfeld is known for his list of known knowns to unknown unknowns with every combination in between. He actually missed one, unknown knowns, which might be the unconscious mind. It does raise the question about things we can never know. I have 3 billion base pairs in my DNA and I am not that smart so it won't be me to discover what can't be known. Besides now that we have Chaos theory it is reasonable to never know. Fractals of infinite complexity makes predictions almost impossible. But there was this guy named Einstein...and he died still wondering. I bet all he needed were new tools.