Patterns Over Causes in Scientific Understanding

Your brain doesn't actually want causes, it wants patterns. Everyone assumes scientific explanation

is just proving A causes B, but that falls apart fast. Think about a flagpole.

You can use the length of its shadow and the sun’s angle to mathematically prove the pole’s

height, but nobody says the shadow explains the pole. That is where Unification

Theory comes in. It argues that real understanding happens when you take one logical pattern—like

gravity or natural selection—and use it to solve a thousand different problems. Science isn't just

a list of facts; it’s the art of explaining the entire universe with as few sentences as

possible.