25 Things People Hilariously Fail to Understand No Matter How Many Times It’s Explained to Them

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25 Things People Hilariously Fail to Understand No Matter How Many Times It’s Explained to Them

Just because our soda can exist are all things that we know work, but given a whiteboard and asked to explain how? The vast majority of us are asking to use the bathroom and fleeing out the back window.

On AskReddit, s submitted their own personal mysteries that they’re probably too embarrassed to ask anyone to explain in detail. A particularly humbling thread to participate in, given that Reddit generally exists as a place where posters vastly overestimate the bounds of their own knowledge. 

Read on to see if you’ll finally find some comrades in confusion.

RECINNING LOOK ALOT LIKE -invalid--name- . 10mo ago CK TH How a basic wax record and player works. I get it's a grove that is tiny hills and valleys and the needle picks up on each little one but how the fuck does that equal a voice coming out of a large metal tube. It's witchcraft as far as im concerned
pvtguerra 10mo ago Electricity.
. 10mo ago TangyCornlceCream How airplanes can be so big and heavy and fly
minnesota2194 . 10mo ago Magnets. Don't understand how they have that physical force locked up in them. Seems to break the laws of physics or something. I don't trust them
jane66x . 10mo ago Quantum mechanics. No matter how many times it's explained, the idea that particles can exist in multiple states at once or influence each other instantaneously across vast distances just feels like nature's most elaborate inside joke that I'm not quite in on.
n0dustOllens ОР . 10mo ago I'll go, for me it's the whole transformation from caterpillars to butterflies. I understand what they DO but it's the most alien shit ever that a worm just decides to rearrange itself into a winged creature that looks nothing like it did before.
britishmetric144 . 10mo ago The stock market. How can it be possible for the value of an item to change so drastically? | understand supply and demand, but the large flunctuations are amazing.
Ola_maluhia . 10mo ago . Edited 10mo ago I don't get how cell phones work. I get it. I don't. How can | speak to my family in the Middle East on FaceTime without any sort of cords. My mind cannot fathom
SteakandTrach . 10mo ago MRIs, and I have a strong STEM education. They're essentially magic. I mean I grasp the basic concepts but how you can create a picture from the response of molecular poles being pulsed is like, wild ass shit.
LadyCordeliaStuart 10mo ago Edited 10mo ago Computer!! You take the rock!! You pound it into metal ore or something!! You put the metal together with some stringy bits of copper or idk whatever goes into circuits!! You run electricity through it!! It does math??? It's a rock!! How it does math?!?!?!??
New_Chard9548 10mo ago So many things & all these answers are just adding more to the list Brains are insane to me...like every human is virtually made of the same things, we all have a brain etc, but everyone's brain is so ridiculously different from others & then when you bring in things like mental illness / dementia- why do some brains go through that and others don't? Why isn't there a better way to help/ reverse/ stop progression.
happyday752 . 10mo ago healthcare bills - they are engineered to not be understood
Old-Olive13 . 10mo ago Bluetooth and Wi-Fi. What is? How does it work? Is it real? Where does it come from? Like really, where tf does it come from!? I freak out about when I really try thinking if it.
babyallenbunch . . 10mo ago How some people can have no inner dialogue. And how can those people have thoughts or ideas? I don't get it.
Lilutka . 10mo ago Universe is expanding. Expanding to where?
_exposure . 10mo ago | don't understand color. I think it's something about how the color we see is the color that wasn't absorbed and therefore the one reflected into our eyeballs, but I just don't really get it.
10mo ago DrPeterVankman My health insurance You mean I have to pay every time I use it even though I pay monthly? Unless I pay a big amount then I pay less? But if I don't use it they just keep it all? But they don't cover my teeth or my eyes?
babygrlnad . 10mo ago The internet. WHERE IS IT? How can things be stored on something that's not tangible?
Sprzout . 10mo ago That the speed of light cannot be exceeded. It is a finite speed, and yet nothing can go faster than that...
ProvenceNatural65 . 10mo ago How a human 3-D prints another human in their abdomen, without any conscious effort. I understand the science. I still think it sounds made up.
 . 10mo ago Even before Brooklyn 99 this was my answer - the Monty Hall Problem. And I'm actually fairly GOOD at math, this one | just can't get myself to fundamentally understand!
random5654 10mo ago That scene from Interstellar when they go to the planet for a bit, then get back to the ship and the dudes many years older. Why time es quicker in different places in space.
shbeesh . 10mo ago The electoral college. No matter how it's explained to me, it will never make sense to me that we award arbitrary points to states over going what the majority of voters want.
parkbench23 . 10mo ago Black holes. Space in general, but black holes really get to me. So strong that light and other stars/planets can't escape it? Where does it all go?!!
VVinstonVolfe . 10mo ago Space, it's so big that it is unfathomable and I think it's expanding?! Into what? How did it start? It's all a mindfuck

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