TIME - III
Ages of experience suggests we are not alone; clues abound that the springs of meaning and purpose
are more than froth in the trough of time.  The consensus of this heritage is not universal, of course, for such is the rashness of human freedom. 

Scientific establishment unbelief is a crude cultural burden that should move us to know what inspires all but a few of  these clever explorers of the sensible world to proclaim so loudly that all of reality is revealed in the thin slice of observation they revel in.   Are they driven by a natural devotion to their faith statements, quite like those of us who are believers?
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From the time of Isaac Newton late in the 17th century, the common sense perception of space and time served the needs of physics at all levels of accuracy.  It was the last thing  physicists would want to question in their triumphant quantitative description of the dazzling collage of physical existence.  Why speculate in absurdities, e.g. lengths  might appear to be different or clocks beat to a different click when they are moving?  This was the period of classical physics.  The arrival of modern physics at the turn of the 20th century was swift, radical, and unwelcome.  The common sense notion of space and time was suddenly replaced by the impenetrable notion of space-time.  One wonders if common sense has ever quite recovered