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But don't all essential components of nature seem random/unexplainable from our point of view? While we can codify their behavior and interrelations via some t
by nsns 11y ago
But don't all essential components of nature seem random/unexplainable from our point of view?
While we can codify their behavior and interrelations via some theory, it never actually explains why they are so and there in the first place.
- TheOtherHobbes 11y agoKind of. There's certainly an interest in finding precise models that are mutually supportive and self-consistent. So the "Why?" question can be answered with "Because that's the only way the whole thing can work." Unfortunately it's just as likely that "Because randomness" is a valid answer. Right now, no one knows. (Although IMO randomness isn't really an answer, because randomness can only happen as the result of a process. It isn't a thing in itself. So I'm always wary of anything that says "It's just random" without explaining how and why it got to be that way.)
- krastanov 11y agoI believe that you would enjoy reading "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences". It is a short essay that deals (but does not answer) the question of why "some theory" that "never actually explains why" seems to still work? https://www.dartmouth.edu/~matc/MathDrama/reading/Wigner.html https://www.dartmouth.edu/~matc/MathDrama/reading/Wigner.htm...