Pointing fingers to anything other than those who do science isn’t gonna fix anything, but maybe it’s the only accurate option we have.

Maybe it’s about the capabilities of humans in general.

Hear me out. Humans have five senses: hearing, touch, vision, smell, taste.

Hearing and touching are all mechanical. What’s mechanics but atoms and molecules in motion? Human scale of mechanical perception is frequencies ranging between 20Hz-20kHz and distance ranging one order of magnitude around centimeter in both directions.

Vision is optical. Human scale regarding optical phenomena is 380-760nm.

Smell and taste is chemical.

So essentially the topics of AMO physics and electromagnetics cover our entire interface modalities with the universe.

I mean Newton did some great stuff, so did Einstein and many other famous scientists.

But.. They already had an [attack](https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/YouAndYourResearch.html#:~:text=It's not the consequence that makes a problem important%2C it is that you have a reasonable attack.) on the problem they were dealing with, simply because they were born in the right era. That is, they were in the right place (mentally) in the right time.

Right now for most big problems we don’t have an attack. All our modalities are saturated with tons of related phenomena observed. And our models all do a good job explaining those phenomena, even though they don’t give us much of a clue about how they fundamentally work.

An example: why can’t we invent teleportation (portals) or time travel? The answer is that we don’t even have an attack on those problems. We don’t understand the system we’re in (the universe) enough to even begin working on such problems.

And that’s what’s happening with science, too.