I think that the way things really are exceeds the limits of our imaginations. I wouldn't doubt that everything we know is only true for what we can observe. If our capability to observe increases, our old theories have to change to accommodate the new anomaly. An example would be the quantum refinements of Newton's gravity. We state anything that works for us in our microcosm as a universal truth, when it is only true for what we can observe. This line of thought can lead one to believe that there really can never be any universal truth. Or perhaps change is the only universal truth.
I recently read a 600 page book dedicated to two gossamer concepts: space and time.
The questions fielded were "What is space? and What is time?"
Space as we perceive it may not exist because "spooky action at a distance" may really just be an item which is one monolith in an unperceived dimension, but looks like 2 separate things in our perceived dimensions.
Time might come about through the bifurcation that happens with every event that has more than one possible outcome. There's a theory that all branches of the tree are always taken. So if we hit and event that can have outcome A or B, it actually has both outcomes A&B, but the universe bifurcates and future bifurcations happen to both A and B. This ultimately leads to billions and zillions of parallel universes, which stack up like pages in an encyclopedia. Time, then, is a conscious mind leafing through the pages of one path down the tree of the multi-verse. Richard Feinman explained the double slit experiment by saying the photon takes all possible paths. Methinks that statement dovetails nicely with the multi-verse theory. And ain't it funny how consciousness keeps coming up in quantum physics? Somehthing's going on there too.
We can only understand it well enough to marvel at it; like a Neanderthal musing over a light bulb.LOL.
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