WHAT IS IT?

We live in a perpetual state of puzzlement.  But note that this puzzlement is in our minds.  The universe is not puzzled.

So we set about clarifying things to lessen our confusion about them.  We develop language which permits us to name and describe things, so we can put them in order.  We create science which lets us name and describe things in still greater detail, and we invent computers which store ever more information about things.

These efforts, unfortunately, collapse under their own weight, for what is the truth of something really, what the something actually is?
 
When, for instance, we put a thing under a microscope so we can see down to its molecular level, we discover right away that the microscope is not powerful enough to tell us all we seek to know.

As a consequence, we devise an even more powerful microscope, except that it doesn’t tell us what we want to know either.  All it reveals is that the object appears to have no end to it.

It is only when we devise an ultimate microscope that we see that what we are looking at is the universe looking back at us, endlessly.