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Hello Neelie:
Nahh.. Once we figure it out, it's FIGURED out.
excon
Possibly, but I doubt if it will be in our time.
Very likely. Lol:)
That's an extremely interesting concept. I doubt it will ever happen, though. Just look at scientific discoveries and the realm of human knowledge throughout history: there are present-day discoveries that were unimaginable (or more accurately, had not yet been imagined) 50, 100, 500 or 1000 years ago. Other things had been imagined but were not realized, such as humans taking flight, or the ability to send messages through time and space.
I believe that if humankind still exists 50, 100, 500 or 1000 years from now, there may be new scientific discoveries all the time.
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When we are in heaven. God says we will know everything then.
NO!
I doubt it.
No. Because then you need to discover why there's nothing left to discover.
Science has reached that stage several times. It always happens when some person or small group of persons gets control of knowledge and commands that there is nothing more to learn. About 300 BC a bunch of people with very high opinions of themselves took over a sacred grove outside Athens, Greece. That grove was called Academus, and we are still saddled with the concept of academy. The most famous of the bunch was named Aristotle, and he had such a high opinion of himself that to this day his name is still a synonym for "arrogant jerk". For two thousand years, young people did not study philosophy or science, they studied Aristotle. Anything Aristotle hadn't recorded wasn't knowledge. Then about 500 years ago the job of guardian of all knowledge was taken over by the Roman Catholic Church. You've heard of Galileo, surely. It was only a few years ago that the pope finally admitted that he was right. One thing about those Catholics: they don't rush into anything.
Bottom line: every time science reaches that stage, some actor forgets his lines and ruins the act.
"All the world's a stage." ~ William Shakespeare
"I want my admission refunded." ~ Jewels Vern
Humans are just intelligent animals. We will never possess the amount of brain power as that of our creator. (sorry, atheists)
No. You'd have to be brought into the Q Continuum to ever reach that stage.
Hi excon. Thank you for your answer.
What makes you say that, Worplesdon?
Let's give it another 100 years. Then what? No more scientists?
Let's put it another way. Even if there are no more discoveries, which I doubt, perhaps there will be inventions to put those discoveries to use; e.g. I believe quantum physics led to the invention of so many new electronic devices.
But all this is way above my head.
Not even then, perhaps, but after many, many reincarnations - if you believe in them, that is - and ultimately merge with Him.
This is a SUPERB answer, midnighttoker.
And what a price Galileo paid for vehemently opposing the Aristotlean view adopted by the Church for centuries! And he paid that price for US, who benefit today from his steadfastness four centuries ago.
Agree, agree, agree.
This is way, way, way above me. But ...
anyway
The price is not all that important. Knowledge does not advance because new theories are better than old. Knowledge advances because all the believers in the old theories die and are replaced by young people who believe the new theory. At the end of the 18th century a doctor observed "We now believe the germ theory of disease. That is because everybody who believed the humour theory has died."
That's a very valid point you've made, Jewels.
But new theories must be better, or at least better fitting, than the old, or else why should a whole generation (younger) believe them?
