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You'd be surprised how many of us simply never consider even the bare minimum of the mechanisms behind how things work.

I don't entirely blame them, because the areas outside my knowledge you could wave your hands and I'd probably believe you if it's too detailed or advanced for me to understand deeply, and things closer to my area I understand and question more.

Quantum physics is basically magic to me (I'm trying to think of another area where I've never considered how something works, I'm sure there are many areas where I'm a dunce, but alas, it's hard to know the things you don't know you don't know). I'm totally happy with the physicists telling me: there's some wibbily-wobbly magic happening down there, and thus, in most cases you're going to come across, discrete electron energy levels 👍.

Thanks, I like your funny words magic man.

Though, in some cases, I think people's lack of curiosity disturbing. I had someone once seriously tell me they thought we had sent spacecraft to other star systems 😬. because they heard been able to measure compositions of atmospheres. That was a formative experience for me at the age of 19. That despite someone going to 13 years of school, and getting into a decently competitive university, they didn't know we haven't sent spacecraft that far.