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Originally Posted by driveway
Correct me if I misunderstand, but wouldn't the Grand Unification Theory, should it ever be elucidated, be the "why" answer that science may actually be able to provide?
Granted it would also be the ultimate "how", but an equation, or series thereof, which was able to encompass all phenomenon (not just all known, but ALL) would be the final answer to the question of why.
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It might describe everything about our universe, or even the initial state of the universe and how that initial state came about, but will it be able to answer why that specific theory describes everything and not some other theory? i.e. why did things happen the way they did and not some other way? I suspect that no matter what theories and models we come up with, there will always be a why that points one level up.