Tong, who did her undergraduate work at UBC, also delves into why Copernicus and Galileo concluded that Earth circumnavigated the sun. She goes into great detail about how the father of microbiology, Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek, exposed the reality of invisible 'animalcules'.

The long-time cohost of The Daily Planet TV show points out in her book that imaginative thinker Isaac Newton revealed the invisible force of gravity. “Inheriting a reality makes it that much harder to see it for what it is.” “Clock time, with the five-day workweek and the nine to five of the 'real' world, exists not because of some cosmic temporal order but because we invented it, we maintain it, and it's become the reality we adhere to,” she continues. This is important, because what we think creates reality. “The way we've come to perceive reality is so deeply ingrained, so socially and intergenerationally enrooted, that we've lost sight of the manner in which we think.

“To see the world clearly, we must first become aware of the veil we must recognize our blind spots,” Tong advises readers. It's a compelling journey into the history of scientific discoveries and a palpable and humbling exposition on the shortcomings of our ability to comprehend. In The Reality Bubble: Blind Sports, Hidden Truths, and the Dangerous Illusions That Shape Our World, she reveals how human beings often don't perceive things that are obvious to other species and that exist in nature. A new book by Canadian science journalist Ziya Tong contains a central idea that spurred me to reflect on the state of political reporting in our country.

The reality bubble book