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It's fascinating to think that our theories on everything around us are based on everything near us enough to be measurable and experimented on. Black holes are

It's fascinating to think that our theories on everything around us are based on everything near us enough to be measurable and experimented on. Black holes are so far away and so outside of our normal observations of mass and energy that we can't observe them well enough to do experiments. It's like we've come up with two theories of how the universe works but and the universe is like "you guys are like 90% there but here's a case where these don't work.". It's fascinating to think that there's gotta be some one theory that can account for everything in the universe both big and small from black holes to quantum stuff. It's like we've dug ourselves in two very deep holes over the years and maybe we need someone to come along with a new hole that encompasses both things that see the whole picture. Anyways now I'm just speculating.

lisper 5y ago
> there's gotta be some one theory that can account for everything Actually, there doesn't. The universe is under no obligation to operate according to laws. That the behavior of the universe is so lawful is quite remarkable. It didn't have to be this way. Our universe could be a simulation, and that simulation could have been created by some capricious being who makes all kinds of random shit happen just to fuck with us. That does not appear to be the case, but there is no reason that it could not have been. Likewise, there is no reason why our brains should have the capacity to be able to figure this out. It may be that the Kolmogorov complexity of the universe is vastly larger than what the human brain is capable of dealing with. Again, this does not appear to be the case. In fact, it appears to be the exact opposite. We can explain 100% of the phenomena within our solar system, and even within most of our galaxy, with theories whose KC is shockingly low, small enough to be grasped by a single human brain. But it didn't have to be that way. And maybe it isn't that way. Maybe we have actually reached the limit of what the human brain is capable of (in terms of figuring out physics). I don't think so, but you can't rule out the possibility on the basis of the evidence we have.
- polishdude20 5y ago
  I'm just saying there's gotta be because of what we've observed so far. Like you said, we can explain 100% of the phenomena in our solar system. It leads to believe that we can do that in the future for things outside of it. Also, just because a theory is discontinuous at its boundaries doesn't mean we can't have a theory that is on the other edge of that boundary. The unifying theory is supposedly supposed to link both general relativity and quantum mechanics. Obviously this is just my opinion but I think any system that is sufficiently observable, with enough time can be figured out completely. I don't think it's a matter of if our brains can understand it but if we can have the ability to run experiments on it and enough time.

lisper 5y ago

> there's gotta be some one theory that can account for everything Actually, there doesn't. The universe is under no obligation to operate according to laws. That the behavior of the universe is so lawful is quite remarkable. It didn't have to be this way. Our universe could be a simulation, and that simulation could have been created by some capricious being who makes all kinds of random shit happen just to fuck with us. That does not appear to be the case, but there is no reason that it could not have been. Likewise, there is no reason why our brains should have the capacity to be able to figure this out. It may be that the Kolmogorov complexity of the universe is vastly larger than what the human brain is capable of dealing with. Again, this does not appear to be the case. In fact, it appears to be the exact opposite. We can explain 100% of the phenomena within our solar system, and even within most of our galaxy, with theories whose KC is shockingly low, small enough to be grasped by a single human brain. But it didn't have to be that way. And maybe it isn't that way. Maybe we have actually reached the limit of what the human brain is capable of (in terms of figuring out physics). I don't think so, but you can't rule out the possibility on the basis of the evidence we have.

polishdude20 5y ago
I'm just saying there's gotta be because of what we've observed so far. Like you said, we can explain 100% of the phenomena in our solar system. It leads to believe that we can do that in the future for things outside of it. Also, just because a theory is discontinuous at its boundaries doesn't mean we can't have a theory that is on the other edge of that boundary. The unifying theory is supposedly supposed to link both general relativity and quantum mechanics. Obviously this is just my opinion but I think any system that is sufficiently observable, with enough time can be figured out completely. I don't think it's a matter of if our brains can understand it but if we can have the ability to run experiments on it and enough time.