... we could feel radiation?

Have you ever thought about the question if the world around us is really like we see it? Actually we make our very own picture of our environment with the information we get from our senses.

We know how things look like from the eyes, how they feel from our skin, how they taste like from our tongue, how they smell like from our nose and how they sound like from the ears. We think that this all together represents the reality perfectly. But maybe these are just some of the information we could get and our picture of the world we live in is not true because it is restricted by the five senses we only have.
In this article I want to give you one example to make you think about this question. Humans know about the existence of radiation for quite a long time now. In physics we call them radio wave, microwave, infrared, light, ultraviolet, x-ray and gamma ray. So there are a lot of different forms of radiation that are always around us and used in many different areas but only one very, very small percentage of them are the waves we know as visible light and we can see with our eyes. Some others we can feel as heat but most of the radiation can not be felt by any of our senses.
What would be if we had one additional sense to experience radiation? It would not just be interesting for the question how we see our surroundings but also useful for the humans heath. Nuclear gamma radiation is all around us in more or less high doses. It comes from the space but also natural metals in the ground and of course the nuclear energy industries. With an additional radiation sense we would be able to avoid it and prevent radiation diseases and diseases which follow this.
Maybe the human body will develop such a sense in the future evolution due to its need on a future earth that is maybe polluted by nuclear radiation. Maybe one day we will have humans with one additional organ on the head that feels radiation. Like one third radiation eye or one radiation antenna. Or maybe one organ will take this function: We will start to smell radiation, hear or see it.
The much more interesting question is how we will feel it. What will strong nuclear radiation feels like? Loud, bright, hot, bitter or smelly? No, it would be something we can not describe now. It is impossible to think of a sensual experience you never had before. No matter how hard you try, you can not escape the limits set by your senses.
But for sure there is more in the world than just what we can think of! Our universe is not how we see it. Radiation is just one example for modalities we can not experience. Others are magnetism or gaseous chemicals we can not smell or see to name just some that we can already measure with special tools we invented. Other things we maybe did not even discover yet.
I hope I could make you interested in this topic and made you think about it a little bit.