We rely on a lot of things without understanding how they work from the dawn of times. They are reliable because they passed the test of time, passed through ma

We rely on a lot of things without understanding how they work from the dawn of times. They are reliable because they passed the test of time, passed through many generations. On the other hand, our understanding about the inner functioning of them changes - the will of Gods, aether, thermodynamics, quantum physics. Nassim Taleb covers this idea in his Antifragility.