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      The geophysical world according to me, and a few folks I happen to
      agree with


    The Blind Men, the Elephant, and its fleas
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*There’s an elephant in the room!*

There was once  an elephant in a room. The beast was the subject of
lifetimes of careful study, and speculation, by skilled, and dedicated,
specialists of precise, but very limited, vision. The man who studied a
leg said the elephant is like a pillar. The one who studied the tail
said the elephant is like a rope. The one who studied the trunk said the
elephant is like a tree branch. The one who studied the ear said the
elephant is like a hand fan. The one who studied the belly said the
elephant is like a wall.

BlindMenandElephant
<http://craterhunter.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/blindmenandelephant.jpg>

The nature of the beast was all very contentious, and controversial. And
even the fleas on the elephants back joined in the debate, with the
assertion that “This is our ever unchanging world, you fools!”. Until
one day, a person came along who could see the whole beast from a
distance, and he explained to them:

“All of you are right. The reason every one of you is telling it
differently is because each one of you has perceived a different part of
the elephant. So, actually the elephant has all the features you
mentioned. But there is so very much more to the beast than any of you
know. You just need to get enough distance to see it all in context”

The blind scholars all dismissed the new viewpoint as heresy. They
argued that it had never been established among them, that eyesight was
a valid tool of science. And detailed inter-assumptive speculation is a
difficult process if there are too many empirical facts to constrain the
imaginations of the participants. So, since this new, and heretical,
viewpoint from a distance revealed much that flew in the face of all
they had so carefully, and painstakingly, confabulated about the nature
of the beast in question, they quickly resolved to ignore the new
viewpoint. And to get on with their life’s work of properly studying the
elephant in the room.

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