Is it possible to understand all of our universe?

Answer

Hi Sam,

That is indeed how it works: that our universe can never be fully understood. At this point, there is absolutely no explanation as to why the Big Bang happened and where exactly the laws of physics come from. And should such an explanation ever be found, we would immediately be faced with a new problem. However, there are scientists and philosophers who would like to say the opposite and say that everything has a logical explanation. Personally, I think that these philosophers are mainly inspired by anti-religious feelings and like to have an answer ready for an easy but unscientific explanation as god the creator.

Yet there can be no purely logical explanation for the universe, because that would mean that only 1 possible reality can exist. How else do you explain that you are not in another reality? Yet there are also simpler realities such as Conway’s Game of Life in 2 dimensions. And there must also be more complex realities in which it is possible to easily travel to other planets, for example, or realities in more dimensions. And finally you can’t explain why you were born as you, and I as me. There is simply no explanation for that. If there could even be a logical being that could explain its own origin, I’d bet on the number 1 😉 But personally I just like to be thankful for being alive.

regards,

Ward