Of course the story we’ve come up with has started to unravel. It was essentially destined to, just as all the past stories we’ve come up with have. We’re just the tiniest little splash in the tiniest little pan way off in some obscure corner of a reality that is vast and complex beyond comprehension.
To think that we can understand the nature of the universe, much less that we already do, is and always has been startlingly obviously ludicrous.
I’d compare this to our understanding of evolution and the frequent table-flipping discoveries involved. We thought we had an idea pretty well understood. Yet we keep learning that while the idea itself is solid, our ability to predict how things worked was too simplistic. So it goes when we look into the past (I’m a history nerd by hobby, so this is how it makes sense to me).
Of course the story we’ve come up with has started to unravel. It was essentially destined to, just as all the past stories we’ve come up with have. We’re just the tiniest little splash in the tiniest little pan way off in some obscure corner of a reality that is vast and complex beyond comprehension.
To think that we can understand the nature of the universe, much less that we already do, is and always has been startlingly obviously ludicrous.
I’d compare this to our understanding of evolution and the frequent table-flipping discoveries involved. We thought we had an idea pretty well understood. Yet we keep learning that while the idea itself is solid, our ability to predict how things worked was too simplistic. So it goes when we look into the past (I’m a history nerd by hobby, so this is how it makes sense to me).
Right. If cosmology weren’t in crisis, we’d be doing it wrong.
The exciting existential-crisis results are often less ‘Eureka!’ and more ‘Huh, that’s weird’, right?