• Question: How does the universe work

    Asked by anon-286544 on 24 Mar 2021.
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      Martin McCoustra answered on 18 Mar 2021:

      The Universe operates according to a set of physical laws… these are mathematical descriptions of the physical processes that make the universe work. Many of them we know but some are still the subject of scientific study. Only by studying the universe will we understand how it works.

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      Jesko Koehnke answered on 18 Mar 2021:

      We have discovered certain rules that the universe strictly follows and developed mathematics to be able to describe them.
      There are far more things we don’t know than we do know though – the scale of our ignorance is truly astounding. That’s what makes science exciting to me.

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