Fundamental assumptions in general and scientific assumptions in particular are so hard to overturn because they are based on belief. Beliefs are so hard to overcome because they are irrational and therefore do not yield to logical argument.

Truth ever lovely - since the world began, The foe of tyrants, and the friend of man.

A stoic of the woods,--a man without a tear.

What though my winged hours of bliss have been, Like angel visits, few and far between.

Our purpose is to grow up and become love

The only thing that is fundamental (real) is consciousness itself; all else is virtual- i.e., a result of an exchange of information within consciousness.

Tomorrow let us do or die!