Science: A Tool to Understand the Universe, But Not the Whole Answer
Many philosophers believe that only science and philosophy can give us the ability to understand the universe and what is happening. They might be right to some extent because science has allowed us to learn about the world around us. For example, we now know how planets revolve around their parent stars and how the moon does the same. We've also discovered the four fundamental forces of the universe: the strong force, the weak force, the electromagnetic force, and gravity. We learned that air has properties that allow airplanes to fly and that the ocean can hold huge ships because we understand the science and physics behind it. Science has helped us figure out how these things work. We also discovered that everything is made of matter, and matter is composed of fundamental particles like fermions, quarks, leptons, bosons, photons, gluons, the Higgs boson, etc. Through science, we've learned many things, including the Big Bang theory, which explains how our universe came into existence.
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Even before humans or any form of life existed, elementary particles and the four fundamental forces of the universe were already present. Despite the absence of human inventions such as airplanes, ships, radios, TVs, satellites, or cell phones, the universe possessed the properties necessary for these inventions to exist.
Photons were reaching our planet and other parts of the universe, carrying signals like light, which is part of the electromagnetic spectrum. All these phenomena were possible even before humans had developed scientific knowledge, yet they were still part of the universe. Even before humans or any form of life existed, elementary particles and the four fundamental forces of the universe were already present. Despite the absence of human inventions such as airplanes, ships, radios, TVs, satellites, or cell phones, the universe possessed the properties necessary for these inventions to exist.