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David Hume really woke up one day and said "hey, you know how you think the sun will rise tomorrow because it always has? Yeah, you can't actually prove that." And scientists have been having existential crises ever since. The brutal truth is that it only takes ONE experiment to completely demolish a theory, but you could run a million successful experiments and still not prove it's universally true. You're just building confidence on a foundation of "well, it hasn't failed YET."
This is the problem of induction that keeps philosophers of science up at night. We assume nature follows consistent patterns, but that assumption itself can't be proven—it's just something we kinda have to accept to do science at all. Doctor Strange here holding up one finger perfectly captures that sinking feeling when you realize your entire understanding of reality is built on observations that could theoretically be wrong tomorrow. Sleep tight!
