Do not be afraid to skip equations (I do this frequently myself).

I would say the universe has a purpose. It's not there just somehow by chance.

My own way of thinking is to ponder long and I hope deeply on problems and for a long time which I keep away for years and years and I never really let them go.

But I think it is a serious issue to wonder about the other platonic absolutes of say beauty and morality.

It seems to me that we must make a distinction between what is "objective" and what is "measurable" in discussing the question of physical reality, according to quantum mechanics. The state-vector of a system is, indeed, not measurable , in the sense that one cannot ascertain, by experiments performed on the system, precisely (up to proportionality) what the state is; but the state-vector does seem to be (again up to proportionality) a completely objective property of the system, being completely characterized by the results it must give to experiments that one might perform.

Quantum mechanics makes absolutely no sense.

And these little things may not seem like much but after a while they take you off on a direction where you may be a long way off from what other people have been thinking about.