The will never be a perfect science because every observer participates to some extent.

Even the people watching from an airplane are observed by those watched. Economics is limited in its predictive capacity precisely because  those observed and modeled are also observing, changing their values and thus their behavior accordingly.

It is, more relatably, the lesson of the suburban adolescent. Who has come to know itself in a social cradle. And must gradually establish a human identity in relation to wider society. By all accounts a trying experience—but one through which many have successfully evolved into something else (sometimes even adulthood). Only it is true at all times of the broader world. 

The ideal of completely candid analysis, of a “native” environment available to a “civilized” onlooker, in fact approaches religion. It shares the notion of a unitary valorization—a diety in other words, omnipresent—capable of a full accounting of all experience and lack thereof.

Astrophysics does not support the theory that all will someday return from whence it came. The universe could cease expanding and instead contract, after which we will all be one thing surrounded by no thing. Time would cease, weight and dimension would have no reference. Such an experiment would be undivided truth, perhaps even repeatable. 

When writing these words, am I the Christian believer or the secular critic outside? Can we even avoid outguessing ourselves?