By far the greatest tragedy comes from those who refuse to accept that the planet turns once each day with the Sun coming into and departing from view (sunrise to sunset) with each rotation -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ys1w9A4DrO4

All the dross of astrophysics from Newton to relativity/quantum voodoo is summed up in the misery of defying the most basic experience of our planet's motion. This and this alone is a tragedy by those miserable Brits who have known only pretense along with their colonist followers.