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3.9
Confusion and road blocks to understanding
 
  By now, the reader may be a touch frustrated at the seemingly inadequate answers that science, religion and philosophy have so far been able to provide to those original questions- why was the universe created? Who or what created the universe? What is the universe ultimately made of?  
  Without adequate answers to these questions, our hope of devising a possibly enlightened and workable model is impossible.  
  However, there are the building blocks of breakthroughs peppered throughout the discoveries of science and religious/philosophical models we have discussed. It might be a question of looking at some of the clues differently to come up with a model that can answer these questions.  
3.9.1 Trying to find a working model  
  In proposing any answer, it is vital that we remain clear that it is only a working model to answer our questions that we seek.  
  The model created by the Judaic/Christian religions is a fine working model for their respective objectives for providing answers to daily questions of behaviour. Yet in terms to answering our fundamental questions who? why? for what ultimate purpose?, the religious models have next to zero utility.  
  It also doesn't enhance our chances of a breakthrough when we consider the mountains of thought that has preceded this point, yet apparently failing to provide us a working model to answer our questions.  
  However, if we remember that our objective is not to initially find physical proof - to see it, record it and possibly touch it- but to understand it. Then with sufficient clues we may find a working answer.  
  Let us then start with what we know are clearly characteristics of the smallest particles of matter that can be deduced from common sense and logic and then work up to see if these common sense understandings provide any clues to our questions.  
   
 
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