“Einstein did not bring an open mind to the riddles of space and time. He was able to resist the allure of prevailing notions by adhering unswervingly to the preconceptions implicit in the equations of Clerk Maxwell, and these led to ideas that were startlingly different from those of nearly all his contemporaries. It was a bias of a rare and very special kind, that brought Einstein to new knowledge about the universe which, like Galileo's, seemed absurd in the light of ordinary observation and flew in the face of common sense. They were at odds with the established beliefs of the naked mind. As he became increasingly persuaded, of the importance of preexisting concepts in making his discoveries, Einstein joked about his transformation from a physicist into a “metaphysicist”. At the same time, he freely acknowledged his debt to Kant, whose “Copernican” revolution in theory of the mind was founded on the insight that we cannot observe the world as it really is, but can only interpret it by means of implicit mental structures that are not in themselves logical.”

-Jeremy Campbell, The Improbable Machine

As I pointed out in the DOOMSDAY WHEEL thread any matter-energy structure has to have extreme attitude to want to hang together in relativistic regimes. So we follow our hunches.