The highness is indeed based on where you live, which is your choice. As Dave Ramsey says, "you don't get a pass on the math because you live in California". You people are nutbags. It also affeCts what people will put up with when it comes to regulatory policy (the constraint that puts a squeeze on building new housing). People learn empty logic until they reach the real world, when they have an extremely rude awakening, and the suicide rate continues to increase as more and more people cannot bear to face what the real world entails, when they come to the violent realization that they are unfit for the real world, because they've been coddled by the school system and taught the opposite of what their priorities should have been (such as encouraging debt to get a degree ). Degrees are great, but a degree means you must work to pay it off, and if you must work at Starbucks while you wish you had more time to devote to artwork, you realize you were served a raw deal. So my soapboxed friend, isolated in your ivory cage, trying to sound smart, does your skepticism ever hinder on curiosity? Physics of what is truly real will catch up to you all, I persist it!!! Methinks!