Someone asked about things people ‘don’t understand, no matter how many times it’s explained? – 23 things we just cannot get our heads around

13.

‘I’m blind, but computer memory. I could feel tape on my cassettes, hear the platters spinning on a hard drive, and even get, to a point, how you can condense just over an hour of sound out of LASER-etched grooves in a CD.

But I have over a hundred days of listening on a Micro SD card the size of my fingernail. No amount of visualisation explains that to me.’
–retrolental_morose

14.

‘Huge amounts of money. I mean I understand it, but cannot mentally comprehend it. A billion pounds? How is that really different to a million pounds? Or a trillion pounds. I just don’t understand.’
–Previous_Pie_9918

15.

‘Letters all the way through a stick of rock.

I’ve seen the process many times, there’s loads of videos about it on YouTube but my brain just refuses to make the connection. I swear in the middle of these videos there’s a tiny pause (paws?) where my noggin blanks out to a little animation of a badger spreading its paws out into a rainbow with the word “Magic!” imprinted upon it and then the video continues.’
–spunkymynci

16.

‘Car engines. At this point I’ve just decided to accept that cars work.’
–FinalEgg9

17.

‘Bluetooth headphones, like it transmits music wirelessly to my ears for that specific song I want to listen to without lag or anything, wirelessly, like no wires wtf.’
–ElectricScootersUK

18.

‘When to use ‘affect’ or ‘effect’. When to use a semi-colon.’
–jaymatthewbee

19.

‘How humans are made of carbon but different bits of carbon do different things. Like the liver is carbon but is different to the kidney which is carbon which is different to the skin which is also carbon… And so on and so on.’
–Jamie1386

20.

‘How the universe is infinite, but also constantly expanding. If it’s infinite, what is it expanding into?’
–Longjumping_47393

21.

‘Tax and pensions. I feel like I’ve understood both, but whenever I hear or read about it and try to apply it to my finances I get confused quickly. I feel stupid and often give up trying.’
–ron_mcphatty

22.

‘How ancient civilisations built the structures they did, made the art, created the tombs – all of it. Yes modern day humans create some amazing things (and some dubious things) but how did the ancients do it without all the technology we have now when there are people who struggle to form a coherent thought without using a computer.’
–Sugarlips_80

23.

‘Apostrophes denoting possession in English. I was even put in a remedial English course but still never got them.’
–LondonKiwi66

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