I know this isn't the most scientific of questions—it stopped Spock cold when it was asked of him in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home—but while an eclipse is, at its most fundamental, a scientific event, we experience it as humans. We feel.
Stories abound of people seeing a total solar eclipse for the first time. They gasp; they laugh; they jump up and down; they stand rooted to the ground and gape upward in awe; they even weep and become choked up by the overwhelming emotions flowing through them.
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