/sci/ - Science & Math

>Used to be really mystified by things like Dark Matter and quarks when I was younger
>Started reading up on it and realize that scientists have no idea what they're doing and are just throwing stuff at a wall and seeing what sticks
Why can't they just admit that they have no clue how the universe works?

Do particles actually exist? As in individual little blobs of something. Is the higgs boson a small blob of something that, when seen as a whole is a field? If so, then how are they excitations in that field?

It seems to me that this is a completely contradictory definition of what those interactions are.