joomla199 11 hours ago

Given that we don’t know why electromagnetism exists, this is basically true for many technologies.

  • adastra22 6 hours ago

    What do you mean? We know quite well how electromagnetism arises from U(1) symmetry in gauge theory. What else is there to know?

    • gizajob 4 hours ago

      What does U(1) symmetry in gauge theory arise from?

      • mzajc 4 hours ago

        Not from bribes and/or moving faster than the regulators. Altman's projects, on the other hand...

      • vmilner 4 hours ago

        It's turtles all the way down.

      • adastra22 4 hours ago

        At some point the answer is “because that’s what reality is.”

  • hoppp 9 hours ago

    We don't know why the world itself exists so everything is magic

    • wartywhoa23 15 minutes ago

      This is true, and the fact that humans mostly become blind to this magic past the age of 5 is one of the reasons we live in such a dismal world.

    • KumaBear 6 hours ago

      There doesn’t need to be a why the world exists. It does that’s all there is to know. There doesn’t have to be purpose just an explanation of how not why

      • hnbad 5 hours ago

        GP probably meant "how" as in "By what mechanisms" not "why" as in "For what purposes". So "why" as in "what makes it do what it does".

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