My world

My world is a strange place. There is little order or organisation – things happen. Sometimes they are directed but generally the world bumbles along doing the best it can. Non-linearity is the most noticeable feature. Complex feed back and feed forward algorithms with lots of inflections and exponential components. Energy supplied by the simple but chaotic process on the sun feeds this complexity. Forever creating new data points to consider.

The trouble is that our maths is just to immature to understand the simple reality of our existence. Even the most trivial problems of any significant are beyond our grasp. We use terms like chaotic or fractal when our understanding ruins out but I am guessing there are simple rules – we just have to figure them out (and develop a system for understanding them).

There is even a sub-branch of mathematics working away at formalising what can not be known. It is a strange concept but you can measure what you can never know. The result may well be a new universal constant. I wonder if this number will start turning up in real world equations or concepts.

So there is a fundamental problem with our math. No wonder physics has been unable to deliver a theory of everything when there are unknowable mathematical realities. So if there are things we know we can never know (with our present knowledge of the unknown) then what happens if our understanding of the unknown matures into the known?