Why sorry, Dave? It's all part of the same cosmos - complex layers of fluid theoretical thinking inspired by natural reality as revealed to us by science. All is one and one is all, as vast and baffling as that might be. The fact that we can speculate on such things is proof enough of that. To nab a WIKIquote from Feynman:

Each piece, or part, of the whole of nature is always merely an approximation to the complete truth, or the complete truth so far as we know it. In fact, everything we know is only some kind of approximation, because we know that we do not know all the laws as yet. Therefore, things must be learned only to be unlearned again or, more likely, to be corrected. … The test of all knowledge is experiment. Experiment is the sole judge of scientific "truth".