Impressive progress in physics has clearly established that the cosmic space is a vibrant field. It sustains everything as its energetic oscillations - all the observable EM waves, particles and other diverse fluctuations. Larger and larger assemblies of the stable particles give rise to the atoms, the molecules and eventually the larger bodies of planets, stars and the galaxies. Everything is embedded within this sea of fluctuations. No interactions, leading to newer measurable and observable outcomes, are free of influence from this stochastic background. So, our experience of the three UN-’s of this essay competition is natural. Yet, our knowledge of the working rules behind the evolving universe has been advancing remarkably well through several centuries. However, for last fifty years or so, the progress in physics appears to be slow. This essay presents an epistemology of successfully and synergistically using the set of tools available to us to keep getting closer and closer to the ontological reality, even though all the individual tools, separately, are quite limited. We can make the three UN-’s keep yielding to our progress without the need to be eliminated. Dissection of our scientific tool appears to be as follows. (i) The Mental Tool is dominantly used to generate the founding axioms/postulates to integrate a broad class of observed natural phenomena. (ii) The Measurement Tool is used to quantify our observations. (iii) The Math Tool, is used to construct mathematical theories utilizing the axioms as guidance. We are proposing an extension of the mental tools to incorporate our old tradition of visualizing the invisible interaction processes. Judicious and iterative use of all these four tools will assure our steady progress towards actual realities of the universe. Unlike Copenhagen Interpretation, we do not need to give up visualizing ontological reality.

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