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      Oh yeah?!! Well so do neutrinos! Electron, Muon, Tau!
      And it has nothing to do with quarks and chromodynamics! Up, Down, Top, Bottom, Strange and Charmed!

      Here’s a grand idea: make everything as confusing as possible, with repeating or similar terminology for different things! Superstrings and Cosmic Strings!

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    Honestly physics is super simple when you realize nothing makes sense.

    And I’m being completely serious. Once you actually truly realize, that the universe is just a total fuckin mess that basically runs on the strongest luck engine there is, it all starts to make perfect sense.

    Once you understand the chaos, the order begins to form.

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      Physics is just us categorizing the relationships between different observed phenomena. “Explanations” are fun, and many can be true at certain scales, but getting deeper into any specific phenomenon is just a rabbit hole that leads to more and more “we don’t know why it does that, it just does and it works in our models.”

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        Exactly my point!

        You can’t get caught up in the why, because at our current understanding, there is no why.

        There only is.

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          Magnetism was my introduction to giving up the “need to know why”.

          Why does one pole attract another? It just does.

          It just does.

          Move on.

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          Sorry, I see how my post could have read. I was agreeing with you. I just wanted to add on because I think it’s so cool that the only thing we’ve ever really been able to do with all our scientific progress and applied science is establish that when we see one thing happening we can be pretty sure that it usually leads to this other thing and we don’t really know why.

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            I didn’t take it as contradictory at all!

            I was simply acknowledging that you understood my point and put a footnote period to the thought.

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        See I don’t see it that existentially.

        To me it’s more: I am therefore I am. What I am remains to be seen, but still, I am.

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        Look. Time Traveling Ellie’s going to make sure everybody gets their fair share of charge. As long as we make sure she doesn’t get in her own way it’s all good.

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          These gifts are getting out of hand. How did she keep it under wraps in the first place?