Do scientists or artists have a more open mind?

Question

I recently posted a question about whether people believe I live with invisible alien beings from another dimension (which I do). I asked the question in the Astronomy section and one in Arts and humanities. Is it left brain vs right brain? I got different results. The question was worded slightly different. Still, the scientists were much more skeptical I think. Chemistry, for instance, is a perfect science that can not go outside the boundaries. I would think astronomers would be more open minded although they tend to deal more with math. Artists, writers are more open to imagination and so the idea that it could exist may be more readily accepted. Scientists, for example, can not accept that the amount of time it would take at light speed to reach Earth. In another dimension, it would be possible. Who would be more willing to accept this theory? What are your thoughts?

Answer 1

Well what would one expect ... Is there a particular branch of the scientific fraternity that you refer to.? Astro scientists definitely believe you can circumvent the speed of light extrapalating from Eiensteins theory that there is no such thing as a straight line. Thus you could travel the universe in the blink of an eye via a porthole. No straight line, no shortest distances between point A and point B. They have the ability to prove that through mathematics therefore they believe it to be true. So in that sense are they objective?

Now take Artist's and writers. What would they base their thoughts on .......feelings and hunches? Sometimes feelings trancend everything else. Are these feelings a universal fact ? I think not ,rather their thoughts. So are they being objective. I would say no they are not. Rather, subjective........Only my subjective thoughts........ There are many branches of science and thus many types of scientists when you bunched them all together which ones were you refering to. I am only curious. Some quantum scientists believe there to be up to eight different dimensions.......so far..... I believe you could be living with invisible aliens but if they are invisable how do you know they are with you. Do you wonder that your mind is playing tricks on you?

Answer 2

I read your question.

You said you live with invisible alien beings. It makes you a liar, delusional, or very unique.

The scientific aspect of being invisible would mean that they would have to be a form of energy, or they would have to have the same refractive index as air, and water, and what ever fluid they move through. Highly improbable. Energy, possibly, but there would be a problem with communication, especially if you are the only one that can here the voices. Delusional, only if you truly believed that you were the only on that could here the voices. You would then be paranoid of retaliation because you let out their little secret. They would be invisible for a reason. You ruined the surprise. I liar would pose it as fact and would stand by it.

It hard for anyone to take your question seriously, unless they thought it worthy of the science fiction genre. Even in that case, you would use preconceptual science to support the plot line. In case you havn't heard, preconceptual science isn't science. It's science fiction. Anything is possible, but the question you posed in improbable.

Answer 3

Having lived with scientists and artists I would say scientists tend to have less bias, they want proof but if you can provide them with proof of an idea they'll believe it. With an artist you have to catch them on the right day and make sure you don't offend their ego with your ideas. I recently went to the Biomedical Images Awards which involved artistic representation of scientific matter, eg pond scum photographed beautifully but found that each image was still presented in a very rigidly conservative manner and the viewer was left to make their own minds up on the subject matter.

If you want to talk about living with aliens personally I'd find a few people who use recreational drugs, or even scientists who use drugs as they tend to be a more experimental type of person with a more open mind even if their answers lack the sharpness of their sober colleagues.

Answer 4

You ask the hard ones huh. I believe that artist would be more open minded, scientist tend to base everything on fact, and lets face it sometimes things just happen. So I think artist would be more willing.

Answer 5

artists are creative
scientists are open-minded so they experiment with things and hypothesize different phenomenons to test on

Answer 6

yes

Answer 7

Artists will be more apt to believe you because they are generally stupid.