Imagine, you’re a medieval professor, believing in geocentrism as the bible says, world is ours to take, human important and all that.
And then you learn that you’re a mere moving something among billions others, that accidentally came to be on a speck of dust in the vast emptiness of the universe.
Isn’t that a form of outmost torture in the hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy series? That you have to experience how tiny and insignificant you truly are.
Eldritch insanity level enlightement.
Imagine, you’re a medieval professor, believing in geocentrism as the bible says, world is ours to take, human important and all that.
And then you learn that you’re a mere moving something among billions others, that accidentally came to be on a speck of dust in the vast emptiness of the universe.
Isn’t that a form of outmost torture in the hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy series? That you have to experience how tiny and insignificant you truly are.
A very similar enlightenment moment came to me as well long ago as an Intro Geology student
Same except i was on acid
https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Total_Perspective_Vortex