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"Why" questions in general are pretty difficult question to answer in a satisfactory way. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36GT2zI8lVA https://www.youtube.c

• rcme 4y ago
  I think “how” is more appropriate in the GP’s comment.
  • thomastjeffery 4y ago
    We can understand a thousand instances "how", but it will always be "why" that ties them together. Like software incompatibility: every program is the story of "how", written explicitly, and translated into instructions. The only way to fit them together is to implement "why". If we could write both stories together, we could factor out incompatibility.
• thisismyswamp 4y ago
  I knew it was the Feynman video!
• jjeaff 4y ago
  Feynman doesn't disappoint. Although, I would have liked for him to make clear how quickly we (including physicists like him) get to "we have no idea". Sort of the overall arc of his answer made it seem that, well we know why but it would be impossible to explain it to you because it is incomparable to anything else you might know. But the reality is, we quickly arrive at the four fundamental forces (the we know of) for which we have no explanation, no further reducibility (that we know of). We know they exist because we can observe them or work them out mathematically. But we have to just accept them on their face as they are in order for the rest of the universe to make sense.