Devilish sorcery

Yes and chemistry is ultimately physics. And physics is ultimately maths.

It's a whole stack of science getting more fundamentaller every step. But it doesn't necessarily go the other way--not all chemistry is biology, for instance.

Also there is a whole lot of ????? between the steps.

Biological cells with their enzymes and proteins have so much stuff going on that we can't fully explain the entire process chemically, but whatever parts we focused on and picked apart has always turned out to be just chemistry. It's just that a single biological cell has so many more moving parts than any machine or device humans have ever built, it's crazy, and we won't get to the bottom of it any time soon. But we don't expect it to be made of anything but chemistry.

Between chemistry and physics it gets a bit more abstract but ultimately it appears to be a similar problem of having a ridiculous amount of moving parts. Except, this being physics, some of the parts considered are concepts like movement itself. It gets a bit hairy and I'm probably a bit wrong too.

Between physics and maths it gets truly weird. Because we don't know what the parts are. Because the math is messing with the concept of "part". Because we just don't understand maths yet. It's got provable contradictory bits, and it's got utterly unprovable bits like none of the other sciences have. The parts of maths that we currently need to describe real world physics, simultaneously give rise to crazy paradoxes that cannot happen. Other parts whisper that our understanding is doomed to be either incomplete or inconsistent. Like, for real. And there is no more fundamental level of science to turn to and figure out what is going on because some of this shit is obviously not right. Something behind the scenes is giggling that we should understand anything at all.

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