Our common sense is constructed and based on the scales of things (whether it's sizes, weights or spans of time) we experience in our immediate surroundings. It's based on spans of time of a fraction of a second to a few decades, and sizes from as small as a grain of sand to the size of a mountain. We struggle to fathom things that don't fit between those limits such as the workings of cells, the much smaller interactions between proteins, and even much much smaller when you get to atoms and subatomic particles. Same goes for the Interactions between the absolutely huge things like stars, black holes and galaxies, which they themselves are minute in comparison to the scale of the universe.

Reality is far more absurd than we're capable of registering, being able to learn of it but not truly understand it, constantly going back to the simple little perception we have where everything just goes on with structure we can make sense of.

Not really, because quantum mechanics allows particles to come from nowhere by giving them the ability to blink into existence. "Somewhere" is something we can't yet define.

It’s because humans can’t comprehend infinity. We can comprehend the lack of an ending, and we can comprehend the lack of a beginning, but the entirety of an infinity is incomprehensible. It’s not that it in and of itself doesn’t make sense, it’s that our sense relies on comprehension, so it might make sense it’s just we can’t make sense of it.

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Maybe your premises are wrong ey? Or maybe what you assume about the universe I guess

I think that we as humans are unable to comprehend the universe fully as we can only observe from a human perspective which isn't necessarily the correct way to look a the universe for complete understanding. Our brains have evolved for survival purposes

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