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Re:The superconductivity of layered graphene is surprisingly... by __MatrixMan__ on Friday February 07, 2025 @12:02PM (#42974935)
Do you suppose everything is explainable? Gravity feels to me like the sort of thing that just sort of is. I'm all for better characterizations of it, but I'm not holding my breath for an answer to: why?
Re:The superconductivity of layered graphene is surprisingly... by jepj57 on Friday February 07, 2025 @12:47PM (#42975393)
Everything may be explainable, just not by humanity.

How does our biology affect the limits of what we can comprehend?

Re:The superconductivity of layered graphene is surprisingly... by __MatrixMan__ on Friday February 07, 2025 @03:47PM (#42977305)
Oh plenty of ways probably. I expect there are perspectives out there which would have a look at our biggest questions and find them to be mundane with obvious answers but which would themselves boggle at concepts that we consider elementary.

But here I am in this body, and not that one, so I'm content to accept an axiom or two.

Re:The superconductivity of layered graphene is surprisingly... by aaronblohowiak on Friday February 07, 2025 @03:51PM (#42977339)
the question is depth and quality of explainability as determined by the predictive power those explanations provide...
Re:The superconductivity of layered graphene is surprisingly... by oneshtein on Saturday February 08, 2025 @12:35AM (#42980678)
Gravity is something very simple. It cannot be a complex thing, because it demonstrates a very simple behavior.
Re:The superconductivity of layered graphene is surprisingly... by __MatrixMan__ on Saturday February 08, 2025 @05:48PM (#42986871)
There are plenty of cases where a complex thing has very simple behavior. For centuries, brewers could get away with a mental model for yeast as something that multiplies and converts sugar to alcohol until it can't anymore. It took quite a jump in technology to realize just how fantastically complex the inner workings of a yeast cell is.

I'm not proposing that gravity is underpinned by something complex, just that if its mechanism is out of our reach then so to are any conclusions about that mechanism's complexity.