Our existence is in total chaos

For example, let’s look at the experiment I mentioned earlier, where we’d throw a stone and calculate exactly where it would hit the ground. We can view that experiment as the system, the stone, the ground, but also the environment we do the experiment in. If we would isolate the stone and the ground from the system, we would be dealing with a smaller part of the total system, and we would for example not have to deal with the forces of the wind or dust particles in the air influencing our experiment, and thus, our results would be more precise, to the point where you would be able to exactly determine where the stone would hit the ground. And every time you do the experiment, throwing the stone with the exact same initial velocity, angle and height would cause it to land on the exact same spot on the ground. Then you could speak of order in the system. But the moment you introduce the rest of the system in the experiment, such as the influences of the wind, you would see that repeating the experiment would give you different results every time you do it, even if those differences would be very small. There are other systems, like the weather, where seemingly insignificant variables may cause really big differences (butterfly effect).

So what I’m trying to illustrate is that even though we live in a chaotic system, when we view isolated parts of it, there may seem to be order and things may seem to behave according to certain rules. Thus, order can appear to exist in chaos, but it is an illusion because you’re not viewing or considering the complete system.
So scientists like Einstein can indeed have expressed amazement at the level of structure and order in nature, but they fail to realize that our universe as a whole is chaotic. Which is why things happen that can’t be predicted or explained by the laws of nature as science describes them.

Another example is an experiment where we’d throw a ball in a small room and it would bounce off of things like in the picture below in a chaotic way.

If we would take a picture of the ball with a camera with a very high shutter speed, and view the ball only a split-second compared to its complete chaotic path, then it would appear to float or rest in mid-air. There would be no evidence, from that picture, of its chaotic movement.

If we would further examine the forces acting on the ball from point A to point C, we’d easily be able to predict them as the ball continues to travel from point C to point B. Things totally change however when the ball hits the wall and there’s a complete change in the situation with regards to the forces acting on the ball from the outside and from within the ball, and the direction of the ball.

And now for the beef:

If we view the existence of our universe as the total path of the ball as shown in the image above, then what we are experiencing now, and what we think we now know of our universe, may be nothing more than a snapshot, comparable to taking a picture of the ball as described above. At most it can be compared to the ball traveling from point A to B, where things seem to remain consistent over time and seem to behave according to certain rules.
But we lack the complete and overall view of our universe. Soon it may reach a point where everything as we know it changes, comparable to the ball hitting a wall and changing direction.

All of what we think we may know today of our universe, all the laws of nature that we think we may have discovered may hold true now, but over the course of millions or billions of years, it may not hold true anymore as things change in our universe. As a matter of fact, because we live in a chaotic system, where things can happen anytime and randomly, everything as we know it could change tomorrow, i.e. the ball may hit a wall tomorrow.

Even though in simpler and isolated situations in our universe things may seem like they are behaving according to certain rules, and that there may appear to be order and structure, these are all part of a larger chaotic and unpredictable system.

So the next time someone wants to convince you about order and structure in our universe, you can reply with: “Riiiiiiiiiiiight…”