Hi it's wonderful to be able to talk to you! (I'm headed into Applied Physics, and as I mentioned before I'm currently waitlisted at Caltech, but otherwise I'll be at the University of Illinois.) How much of current theory in physics can be rationally concluded to hold true for all parts of the universe? Scientists each day are discovering that current models don't hold true in certain situations, so are any laws we find actually universal? Any empiricist will endlessly try to collect information until a model can be formulated that describes what is observed, and even then they will still wonder if the known universe can truly be representative of all of this universe. As a rationalist as well, it is important to recognize that all of reality cannot have laws describing it, other than that reality must have an infinite amount of information and be dynamic (which I hope you agree with). So to sum up my point and my question, will empirically-derived physics be able to tell us anything that is truly, incontrovertibly universal?
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Hi it's wonderful to be able to talk to you! (I'm headed into Applied Physics, and as I mentioned before I'm currently waitlisted at Caltech, but otherwise I'll be at the University of Illinois.) How much of current theory in physics can be rationally concluded to hold true for all parts of the universe? Scientists each day are discovering that current models don't hold true in certain situations, so are any laws we find actually universal? Any empiricist will endlessly try to collect information until a model can be formulated that describes what is observed, and even then they will still wonder if the known universe can truly be representative of all of this universe. As a rationalist as well, it is important to recognize that all of reality cannot have laws describing it, other than that reality must have an infinite amount of information and be dynamic (which I hope you agree with). So to sum up my point and my question, will empirically-derived physics be able to tell us anything that is truly, incontrovertibly universal?
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