They're really not. Or to put it differently, it took a small difference in our brains to have a big effect.
For example: the average desktop computer may have around 4gb of ram and 2 ghz of processing power. That allows you to run very basic applications by todays standards. You triple those...
You're still differentiating the aspects of the universe, and thus recognize it as non-uniform. That's the nature of any system. You don't recognize the star as the planet and the planet as the star (even if you say you do. In practice, you wouldn't. i.e. you wouldn't land a spaceship on the Sun...
We haven't even explored much outside of this solar system. So to say we've exhausted every possible theory is a rather severe lack of foresight. There's things we know are yet to be discovered. With new discoveries comes new theories. To say there are no more theories left is to say there's...
We haven't even begun to scratch the surface of what we know about the Universe. To say we've exhausted all possible explanations (apart from the supernatural) is incredibly naive.
You didn't have to. You still recognized differentiating aspects of the Universe i.e. identifiable parts. You can sit back and say they aren't, but that doesn't change the fact that you did identify them. You wouldn't be able to do this with an elementary particle.
No, I'm referring to the...
See what I mean? You're not able to define the Universe without first identifying it's various parts (stars and planets and such).
Which means you're forced to recognize other hypothetical parallel universes to define the multiverse.
Well actually, it's possible for the wave to travel...
Yeah, all the parts collectively are what the Universe is. Same with a system. Same with a car. But it still has definable parts.
You don't actually know that, because there could be other Universes out there. And it may in fact be possible to remove matter from this Universe and place it...
It's a system. Systems, by definition, have interacting parts that make up a whole.
Stars and planets are definable parts.
Waves in the ocean is just energy propagating through the water. It's like saying electricity transmitting through a wire is part of the wire.
Also.... you're able...
There are definable parts of the one thing (the Universe) that are interconnected. That's what you're not understanding. Is it really hard to grasp at the idea that multiple parts of something can make up a whole?
We don't perceive anything as exactly how it is. Nothing is ever going to be precisely what it seems to be for us. We could only ever get better approximations. In the end, it's whatever notions, theories, models and frameworks can be best put into practice and have useful applications.
For...
I think there's some truth to saying all things are an "illusion" in some sense if that's how you define "illusion". But I wouldn't use the word illusion.
Thinking of things as solid matter is just our mind's way of approximating the the nature of matter based on our experience. As humanity...