What can't you wrap your head around?

[RosieLemonade]

For me it's how colour works. The whole part with reflecting light. Just how can that be true? (I know it is)

How vinyl records work.

Seriously how does that person's voice get scratched on a bit of vinyl and sing perfectly?

Phones. You can talk to someone on the other side of the world. I just don’t get it.

That there are more stars in the sky than grains of sand on earth.

It's not made up, it's how long we take to spin on our axis/orbit the sun

But it could have easily been based on something else, or not used as all. The way a foot is the measure of an actual man's foot, but we could have measured using ears.

Peer pressure.

I accept it as a fact that this is something other people feel, (just like I accept that planes stay up in the air) but I just never felt it. It has made me wonder, along with some other tendencies, whether I am on the autistic spectrum.

Another who can't fathom how a camera works, especially a disposable one, there's not even a screen!

Also, how humans all come from a teeny egg and sperm, how to the cells grow into an actual person and how to the very mast majority all grown the same?! With the same organs, same amount of blood ect.

And also how colour printers work, how does it know which colour to do and where?!

Last one, if you died a painful death, does it matter, because you can't recollect the pain? (Obviously it matters and no one should die in pain) but does it matter how you die because once you die, you're gone and you aren't there to remember it? Obviously it matters to the people you've left behind, but from the perspective of the person who has died?

The whole space thing, and how light left a star thousands of years ago yet we see it now.

All of these, life is incredible - oh apart from the bonkers one about experimental vaccines

Tides. Where does all the water go when the tide goes out?

definitely don't 'get' bitcoin, and NFT's baffle me even more.

i can't wrap my head around how someone can kill someone else.. just don't get that total lack of respect for another human life.

Languages screw with my brain.

So, here’s an apple. Except in French it’s a pomme. Who decided pomme was better than apple? Or vice versa? How are French people looking at an apple and basically seeing a pomme?!

I can’t even explain it myself, I am clearly overthinking it! I think it stems from studying languages in school and having to sort of translate the French to English and back again and then my brain got stuck!

I’m another one that can’t think too much about space either...

@thatonesmine

Tides. Where does all the water go when the tide goes out?

It goes to the other side. So low tide here is high tide in the West, America.

People who think the earth is flat.

Oh and how people can murder someone or abuse them. Especially children. I just cannot understand it at all

How a lot of people love pork.

Theres a reason why Muslins dont eat it.

Ever heard the term "happy as a pig in ......"

the pandemic.
I'm living in a zombie film at the moment still
and trying to believe we can all meet for a pint down at the Winchester and have a chat and wait until it is all over...

How are we the only species in the whole universe.
How something so vast has nothing else.
Just us floating around.

Very unlikely. Our technology as amazing as it is has just allowed allowed us to knock very very quietly on next door neighbours door. The fact they don't seem to be in - or just aren't answering/can't hear you - doesn't mean the other 99.999% of people in the town are also out, let alone the country, let alone the world.

Competitive cheerleading. They are fabulous, but who deciding that cheering others would be a sport in its own right, and who decided to make it into a competition?

That reminds me of another one @PopsicleHustler - why autocorrect changes muslins to Muslims and vice versa

That every atom and element in our bodies is stardust, every fibre of us already was, since the beginning of time, before we came to be! Absolutely blows my mind every time I think about it.

allowed us to knock very very quietly on next door neighbours door. The fact they don't seem to be in - or just aren't answering/can't hear you
Or are alien Mumsnetters.

Space
Electricity
Phones
Life in general I think

@Gilead

Why people voted for the incompetent, corrupt shower currently in government.

And if there was another election tomorrow, would do exactly the same.

The human sex ratio

@SpikeDearheart
Yep. Folks living in our nearest neighbouring galaxy would see, if they had a powerful enough telescope, daily life on Earth 2.5 million years ago. Space is Big.