Scientists put sugar water outside of a beehive every day at 4:00pm and found that the bees soon started coming out of their hives for the sugar water at 4:00pm every day. The bees did this even when there was no longer any sugar water left out for them.
Therefore, bees perceive time.
But some said, “Hold on, what if the bees are measuring the angle of the sun.”
So they did the experiment in the dark. The bees still came out at 4:00pm.
Therefore, bees perceive time.
But…some said, “Hold on, what if the bees are measuring the heat from the sun?”
These back and forths happened repeatedly until the experiment was eventually performed underground in a salt mine.
But…some said, “What if the bees are measuring the rotation of the Earth?”
How do we prove that bees perceive time?
Then, a scientist did the exact same experiment, not in a salt mine, but in Paris. Then that scientist flew the bees to New York City. The bees left the hive at 10:00am because they had jetlag.
This proved that bees perceive time… I think? (Maybe bees have an internal clock completely separate from our “time.” Do bees, in this case, perceive time “more” than I do because I don’t think I could be that precise…. But I digress). I’m not smart enough to think of another, “What if bees were doing this,” scenario, but what this did make me think about is how faulty our human logic is. Almost anything can be proven or disproven. What do we really know…about anything?
With all our science, logic, and knowledge, we still basically know nothing. Our very own bodies are a mystery. We still don’t know how the pyramids were built. There are theories, of course, but we’ll never really know until it is revealed to us. I’m amazed at the pompous ignorance of our generation. Our generation believes that because we can Google something we’re the smartest generation to ever live on the earth, while most of us can’t begin to explain how “Google” even works.
This story just made me think of the frailty of our own brilliance. It’s hard to prove anything and we’re really not as smart as we all think. That’s all.
No Coincidences 