During the Twentieth Century Anno Domini (AD) mathematicians proved that there are ordinary truths within relatively simple logical and numerical systems that cannot be proven within those systems. Physicists observed that there were fundamental limits to the precision of simultaneously measuring related physical quantities. The inescapable conclusion is that it is impossible for us to discover a Universal Theory of Everything (UToE) by observing and reasoning about the observed universe.
The only way that we, as human beings, can understand the universe, let alone our place in it, is to have the Creator of the Universe (CotU) tell us what we need to know. The premise of this document is that the CotU has given us what we need to know about His creation in the form of the Holy Scriptures of the Hebrews and the Christians. The fundamental plan is laid out in the Tanach (also known as (aka) the Old Testament), but this document contains some “mysteries”. The “mysteries” within the Tanach are revealed in the “Renewed Covenant” (aka New Testament) writings that make up the second part of the Christian Bible. The Renewed Covenant itself contains some things that are specifically not revealed, perhaps to remind us that we are incapable of knowing and understanding all things.
In a more mathematical sense, the Holy Scriptures are a projection (aka mapping) into our world of the CotU’s plan for the evolution of His creation from the beginning to the end. What is called “Bible Prophecy” does not come true because the CotU knows what is going to happen. “Bible Prophecy” comes true because it is a mapping from the actual plan (aka The Word) that makes things happen in the universe that we experience.
One of the first things one learns about all known physical theories, such as, equations of motion, or electromagnetic field equations, is that they are differential equations. This means that the equations specifies the rate of change of dependent quantities in response to the values of other independent quantities in the equation. In order to predict the evolution of the system one has to specify the initial or boundary conditions of the independent quantities. Only then can the future state or probable of the system be calculated.
In the search for the UToE one can get a somewhat decent handle of current conditions in a small area of study, unless one looks too closely, but things rapidly get very complex. It is possible to write down equations of motion for three bodies in a Newtonian Gravitational Field. If the initial positions and velocities, i.e., the boundary conditions, are known, then one can use the differential equations of motion to calculate future positions, but it is impossible to write down explicit equations for the orbits of the objects. We also know that Newton’s model for gravity is not as accurate as Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity, which itself has limitations at very small scales.
And these are just little boundary conditions. The big boundary conditions are “Why are we here?”, “How did this all begin?” and “How will this all end?” Absent some revealed truth, these big questions are unanswerable.
“It is possible to write down equations of motion for three bodies in a Newtonian Gravitational Field. If the initial positions and velocities, i.e., the boundary conditions, are known, then one can use the differential equations of motion to calculate future positions, but it is impossible to write down explicit equations for the orbits of the objects.”
Indeed, I don’t think most people realize how absolutely hamstrung physicists are when trying to accurately describe even relatively simple dynamic systems. Yet, if we can’t solve something as simple as the 3 body problem, how can we model a much more complex dynamic system like climate? It’s an exercise in futility. With the 3 body problem we at least know most of the variables, but with climate we have no idea how many variables we are missing.
Expand that from the climate of one planet to cosmologically modeling the life of the entire universe, and the missing data and errors are only going to multiply exponentially. Yet we fancy we can actually craft reliable theories on the basis of such dodgy math :)