Journal

A sleepless summer night.

At daybreak, I opened the window. The freshness and coolness of the motionless air. Tree branches frozen as if in a still frame. Neither birdsong nor any other sound has yet broken the silence left by the night. The tops of the pines are lit by the sun’s rays passing through pink clouds. The sky is a clear, translucent blue, with a few light white clouds gently drifting towards me.

Statement

Suppose that

1. $P \rightarrow Q$,
2. $Q \rightarrow R$.

Then

A scientific discovery may begin with a fact that does not fit into the existing picture of the world. If the fact itself is well established, but the existing description of reality cannot explain it, this does not necessarily mean that the fact is wrong. Perhaps it is the description itself that is incomplete. I find it interesting to consider that an existing theory may be entirely correct within the domain it describes, while still remaining only one facet of a broader picture of reality.