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If we take a sample of potable water from a water-jug and carry out naked-eye examination, we would not know it as anything other than transparent, sterile liquid; but what if we mount a drop of it on a slide, and put it under microscope ? It will appear to be teeming with organisms. Similarly, if we look skyward through a powerful telescope, we would see a series of galaxies which did not exist for us earlier. The fact of the matter is that our senses are not capable of seeing / experiencing the reality of the physical world. For example, the sunrise visible at dawn and the passage of sun across the sky from East to West and sunset in the evening - is all an illusion of our eyesight. In reality, the sun is steady, but the earth rotating on its axis keeps the sun out of our sight for some time that causes us to see it rising, setting and traversing the sky from east during the day; the sky touching the earth at horizon, trees running when seen through a moving train and a series of still frames projected in rapid succession appearing as 'movie' are all optical illusions.
So also, all objects appearing solid and in steady state are an illusion created by the limitations of our senses in the matter of gaining knowledge. We have already noted the fact that solid and steady-looking objects are in fact, conglomerations of atomic particles spinning around at tremendous speed like satellites and are 99.9% parts just vacuum. The electron within the atom spins at a rate of thousand million orbits per one millisecond. But limited capacity of our eyes prevents us from seeing its velocity of movement. And, just as in place of separate blades of a fast-rotating fan, we see a single blur of a circle, the objects formed of fastmoving atomic and subatomic particles appear solid even when they are made of 99.9% vacuum.
How does illusion arise ?
Science affirms that the world apparent to us and
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