Superstition and Science---matters of perception?

May be each one of us should do dhyana... as detailed by Lord Krishna in Bhgavad Gita. May be my superstition?

One gets introduced to a different world than what we perceive. But it is useless to present the same in the current
physically bound frameworks of scientific approach and rational limits.

Superstition and blind words are difficult to understand when used together. Superstition means strong and blind belief
in apparently un-connected cause and effect post hoc ergo propter hoc type. Further adding blind is superfluous, I feel.

A computer scientist like Prof Rao, will have a hard time to convince a simple uninitiated illiterate villager , how he is able to remotely through wireless networks and satellite imagery able to see the current status of his fields very far away and tell him a broken dam was flooding his fields just as he is sitting with you and chatting, after making every thing secure for the day , resting after day's hard work. He will not believe until you show the pictures and even then, only if he believes you are right, then would rush.

A blind faith in you is needed.

Else he will call you crazy by his rational standards. But it does not change the fact. But villager certainly thinks you are nuts.

Matters of perception. Then he suffers. First time he may even dismiss it as a fools' word proven right by chance. if he has strong trust in his own knowledge levels.

Repeated success rate of such advices, then makes him re-think, and will develop a superstitious belief in Prof Rao, that his advice be better followed, even though by his level of rational thinking and knowledge, he is unable to understand nor explain why or how it is happening.

Why has remained a question for all our scientific "laws."

An young boy of 7th grade asked me, WHY two bodies attract to exert force on each other? What is gravity? WHY planets should exert forces on each other?

I am yet to answer his questions.

If some one can help me with the answers, please, I am grateful.

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