Is That the Right Way to Think of It?

Think of knowledge almost as this growing sphere against the unknown. The more we know, the more we know we don't know. And therefore, in our infinite ignorance, we, we are all alike. We can see beyond the visible so we can look up in the sky and see a cold, tiny dot of what looks like cold white light - which is actually a star. It's at 25 million degrees in its interior and six thousand degrees on its surface. If we went there, we'd be fried to a crisp. So we can never experience it, at least not without specialtechnology. But yet we can know about it. This is because human minds and explanatory knowledge has a special