I think this is the biggest problem I see in people trying to understand deeper fields of study, a concept is just too large or out of our perceived reality to even make sense without years of knowledge. I think people fall into the “woo woo” just because it’s easier to not really know versus becoming a doctorate in a field of study who has slowly built that knowledge on the fundamental principles needed.

But either way, when you start, you just have to accept that something has a cause and effect. We can’t see most fields, just have to accept they are there and interacting the proposed ways because of our tiny little sensors. Sometimes, we just have to say “ok” even if it boggles the mind.

  • makeshiftreaper@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 months ago

    I kinda agree. Sure there’s observable/measurable phenomena out there, but past a certain point it’s like a toddler asking why? You just have to say "because that’s the way it is:

    Why did that apple hit me in the head? Because of gravity

    Why does gravity make things fall? Objects of larger mass attract objects of smaller mass

    Why do they do that? Well the more massive something is the more it warps space around it

    Why do massive objects warp space around them? Well there’s some theories that certain sub-atomic particles interact in a way that causes these forces

    Why do those particles do that? Well that’s just what they do

    (yes, I know these are overly simplified)

    Eventually you reach our furthest level of understanding and we just have to say “that’s just what we have observed happening, we don’t have a root cause or explanation yet.” That bottom level is basically magic in our universe until we learn more about it