Coral is a very beautiful and unusual animal. Each coral head consists of thousand of individual polyps. These polyps are continually budding and branching into genetically identical neighbors.
I always found it satisfying that gravity was described by Einstein's geometric theory of general relativity.
I'm afraid the workings of J.J. Abrams' mind falls outside the predictive capacity of any coherent theory.
Math does come easily to me, but I was always much more interested in what theorems imply about the world than in proving them.
I think the universe is pure geometry - basically, a beautiful shape twisting around and dancing over space-time.