"The true nature of the universe" is either about cosmology or it's (wrongly) about ontology/metaphysics. Both seem like interesting pursuits. Fitting cosmologi

"The true nature of the universe" is either about cosmology or it's (wrongly) about ontology/metaphysics. Both seem like interesting pursuits. Fitting cosmological models to massive datasets from astonomical observations seems laudable and not entirely out of reach (one approach: space- and time-localized NeRF fitting on the entire visible universe accounting for relativistic effects). It would be strange to describe discovering ontologies as learning the "true nature" of things unless you were a hardcore idealist/Platonist, but that seems more appropriate given the starting points afforded by the current state of the field and the hype that surrounds LLMs.