What blows me away is that everytime mankind closes in on an understanding of reality, it makes a sharp lefturn and dives down some damned rabbithole we had no idea even existed. We are being told how naive we are to think you can build a big beautiful majestic universe on a small number of principles our puny human brains can comprehend.
The Universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose - J.B.S. Haldane
I agree entirely. It's actually amazing to me how much we can comprehend, or at least conjecture about, with our 3-3.5 pound brains, and the flickering short existence our lifetimes in this world represent.
We are being told how naive we are to think you can build a big beautiful majestic universe on a small number of principles our puny human brains can comprehend.
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Maybe that’s the case if a person is a strict determinist like Einstein. But others, who believe in free will, would expect to find something odd like QM.