@thor @icedquinn
True. What science does is find more and more accurate models of what the world works like, but in practice we might never know how the universe ACTUALLY works like.
We find that E=MC^2 is a very accurate equation, but the true algorithm our universe follows might be something outstandingly different and it just happens that E=MC^2 is a very good approximation.

Something interesting I've read recently, a bunch of scientists tried to get an AI to figure out some of the basic theories (equations) that describe our world. They had the AI watch movies of things like pendulums, to teach it how their motion works, and the AI spat out some equations. And the scientists were able to tell that the equations worked, but they couldn't figure out what the different variables or constants actually represented, for example: which variables represented speed, mass etc.
Goes to show that there are many ways to describe the world, there are many ways you can formulate models to describe a phenomenon, but it doesn't mean it completely makes sense or that it's consistent with everything else.