"and pretty much when you explain events in a formula.."
..you decrease it to just a formula.
Thats what science etc. is.
It's just putting what we observe on our scale of reality into symbols and formula's.
It's not understanding it's staring yourself blind on the 'name' you have given to something you saw.
You have been born as a part of some big alive thing.
Apparently everything worked before we came up with symbols .......... AND WAR !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sorry, I really don;t have any academic stuff to contribute.