AM> After one takes a course in mechanics, everything is explained
 AM> and well understood. But after you get your hands on the quantum
 AM> teleportation, trasactions and even the super-string theories,
 AM> things get quite complicated. For example, QED theory helps us
 AM> understand indterations b/w charged particles. But the more one
 AM> knows, the more it becomes obvious that he knows less. What makes
 AM> the universe tick? What makes up energy? What is spacetime?
 AM> No one knows the answer to these questions and this is just a couple
 AM> that one starts to asks himself after knowing something about the
 AM> universe. If one is ignorant, these questions never arrise. So I
 AM> have to disagree with you, the more you know, the more complicated
 AM> things get. :)
 Perhaps...yet if I ask you to tell me some new phenomena....my guess is that 
you could not come up with one which is not explained by physical laws. Going 
beyond this, sometimes some questions are meaningless, especially the why 
questions.  'What makes the universe tick' is one of these.  'What makes up 
energy?' is another since your looking for deeper explanation of a vague 
human concept.  Apart from specific examples, nothing makes up energy.  Its 
the last word, more like an axiom.  'What is spacetime?'? What kind of an 
explanation do you want?  People make the mistake of thinking that strange 
concepts must have a more fundamental explanation in terms of human concepts 
based upon our past experience with nature.  Not so. 
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