and normally they don’t interact

But dark energy and dark matter make up 95% of our universe. So they would be the "normal".

If anything, the 5% that we do know would be the "abnormal".

And anyway, it's only called dark energy and dark matter, not because it doesn't have a cause, but because it doesn't interact with light (photons don't interact with it).

Although I think you are right that they don't know what causes it. It does interact with gravity, though.

But all this is way beyond my tiny brain.

I'm a lot more worried that we're actually just the little color patterns that float around the outside of a soap bubble. That we're just the error rate in a dynamic creation/annihilation event that happens everywhere.

Sounds like a very esoteric way of looking at things we don't fully understand yet. There have been countless of "invisible" things that we could not see before over the past few centuries alone. Hell, we cannot even really see other planets orbiting other stars themselves, but we can observe the effect they have on the parent star itself and thus know they're there. Just try to explain to someone from a few thousand years ago what germs are. A concept even many people today are struggling to understand, as we clearly saw within the last 4 years. Quantum science is complicated and seemingly weird, but it still follows rules that we have yet to fully learn, and I have no doubt that, if we had enough time, we'd figure that out just like we figured everything else out before.

I think that's a fantastic metaphor, and I've often wondered the same thing. I wonder if we have simply yet to see what's beneath the surface, or if we may not be capable of seeing what's beneath the surface.

I hope for the former.

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Sometimes I wonder if consciousness is itself a force and the more we probe the larger consciousness grows.

Although it is very much on the Science Fantasy side of things your thoughts remind me of the “The Final Architecture” book series by Adrian Tchaikovsky. Really enjoyed reading the trilogy.

According to Bell's Theorem, there can't be any hidden variables causing quantum unpredictability, so there can be nothing "under the surface" controlling it.

You know what they say, the darker the mystery, the sweeter the… scientific paper that explains it.

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Science got that revitiligo.

then our model of physics is totally fucked

Aren't we discovering that all the time? We're just making the most of the best models we have, but we know for certain that they're very incomplete.