What do you think is the biggest mystery in science?

I have two which are related:
• Why is there something rather than nothing?
• Why does that something continue in a causal fashion?

This cast inspired by this podcast with Lex Fridman and Adam Frank:

What do you think is the biggest mystery in science?

I have two which are related:
• Why is there something rather than nothing?
• Why does that something continue in a causal fashion?

This cast inspired by this podcast with Lex Fridman and Adam Frank:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSz0R_S4QMk

Causality is perhaps a human construct. Check out Wolfram on observer theory.

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Causality is perhaps a human construct. Check out Wolfram on observer theory. 

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/12/observer-

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Yeah I generally like Wolfram a lot but his OT doesn’t move the needle for me. It’s fairly hand-wavy imo.

It’s at least a refreshing take but if true ( based on my understanding) it would essentially negate all of science by minimizing it to be meaningless (aka “science works because science works”).

“Because”

Be cause

When asking about the cause of causation, yeah it’ll get circular, Godellian perhaps. But yeah needs more formalization. Still new.

Not sure i’m the one to do it, but working to make some sense out of it.

Recursive pattern compression is adaptive in all kinds of systems.

Also doesn’t “negate” science in the subjective sphere we are locked into, but does call in the limits of an objective view, which is maybe just multi-subjective and we hit those limits in qm.