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Originally Posted by DrRocket
I don't think so. What does it mean to understand "what things actually are" ? That sounds rather mystical.
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I have no idea what you mean by "what things really are". When you start talking about quantum mechanics I have less than no idea.
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Why does it sound mystical? When I say "what things really are", I mean what is the reality of the microworld? QM has its limitations, does not include gravity, is incompatible with GR at extreme conditions, like black holes or the Planck length.
String theory, which is totally unproven to date, postulates vibrating 1 dimensional strings for the elementary particles. M theory brings n dimensional branes into play.
These are all different mathematical models of the microworld.
But what is actually present down there? (I know we will probably never be able to know...)