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This dawned on me as well when I watched a Feynman video on electromagnetism. He talked about that you can explain the "how" of its working, but not the "why".
by colordrops 4y ago
This dawned on me as well when I watched a Feynman video on electromagnetism. He talked about that you can explain the "how" of its working, but not the "why". The fundamental forces of the universe are basically magic fields. And this is true for anything that is fundamental and can't be deconstructed further into more primary components.
- chinabot 4y agoThis! Its not an 8 layer ISO stack (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSI_model https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSI_model), there many layers below the first layer some of which nobody understands.
- fragmede 4y agoLayer one encompasses the physical layer so I'm not convinced there's an additional layer to be had. It does require a deep understanding of the physics involved though.
- dtgriscom 4y agoWe have a clear and clean description of the apparent bottom layer of the universe, but we also have clear evidence that it's incomplete, that there's something else going on. So, physicists are spending billions of dollars trying to look one layer deeper and find "new physics." To no avail, yet...