(06-20-2025, 02:22 AM)rickymouse Wrote: ...
... it just means that there are a real lot of possibilities, and it is not really important that we know anyway. ...
Well, it kind of is important, particularly as it relates to one of my 'favorite' subjects, quantum physics. (a little sarcasm there; far from my 'favorite'). If we ever want to hear the end of people attributing every imaginable impossible thing to "quantum physics", because "quantum physics", then understanding the nature of the Universe at least from a stability state is pretty darn important. Understanding the exact origins (i.e. exact time, and precise point) is not nearly as important as at least having a better understanding of the role of mass and some far better understandings around the reality of anti-particles. Right now, the overwhelming justification of their existence is, simply put, kind of backwards logic when you boil it all down. The basic explanation boils down to..."well, they HAVE to exist, because otherwise there's no other way to explain why the Universe isn't all mass, and/or how the Universe exists in the state we observe it to be."
To me, that is not an empirical scientific explanation, and it doesn't 'prove' the existence of 'anything' (as it were). Yes, there is an element of the esoteric in proving the existence of something which doesn't (and can't) exist...in an abstract sense. And some do in fact use this argument to justify their conclusions of the existence of such things. It is often scaled up to the legal concept of never attempting to prove a negative. Personally, I think that's kind of a cop-out for convenience.
Quote:... Who the hell knows, and who cares anyway, none of this really matters.
From a purely logic perspective, your statement proves itself! LOL! Because no one 'the hell' knows, it kind of proves it 'does' matter. Thus, why people should care.
This last part was more in jest than anything else, so hopefully you don't take offense as none was intended!