Assuming that an intelligent race suvives long enough on this planet, how long do you think it will take before we have come to understand all that is and reached the end of scientific discovery?
2006-08-04 12:48:22 · 18 answers · asked by aaron g 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
For us, Human race, it took almost a million years, from the first humanoid to 2003 when the physicist Bryan Green explained his Theory of Everything!
2006-08-04 13:20:52 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Probably a long time. Remember, back in the 1800's they wanted to close the Patent Office, claiming that everything had already been invented or discovered! " Of the making of books, there is no end." Eccleisastes 12.
There are only 88 keys on the piano, and beautiful music is still being written for it. Using just two notes apiece, one could still write bazillions of musical pieces.
Now, there are something like 120 elements (at last count) and four basic forces, and many, many different intensity levels of those forces. I don't think we have to worry about running out of things to discover for a long, long time.
2006-08-04 20:16:34 · answer #2 · answered by cdf-rom 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ah, you have raised a unanswerable question. After someone concludes that they understand everything, there is still the experience of understanding what its like to understand everything. And the study of those individuals will lead to new understanding of the limitless endeavor that is life. But, a argument on the side of never is easier to make, as we obviously have the potential to be eliminated via self destruction or natural calamity. There is no end to discovery, but there may be and end to the discoverers!
2006-08-04 20:43:45 · answer #3 · answered by Karman V 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because God only knows of 'No beginning and no end' and He did not give us that brainpower, We will have to wait till we meet Him. We read so much crap eg "The Big Bang'' What was before that? Any how one scientist once said if we believe creation came with a big bang. It's like putting a bomb in a printing works and the Encyclopedia Britannica coming out
2006-08-04 20:07:45 · answer #4 · answered by pop065 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
About 500 years after artificial intelligence works and computers start making better thinking computers.
Brains jump-started from death, reborn into our world, will help these thinking machines.
Normal living humans will not want to participate in this society of endless knowledge, it will drive them insane.
2006-08-04 19:52:36 · answer #5 · answered by urbancoyote 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
u never know
in my opinion we are pretty close.
the new upcoming theory-- "the string theory", is good reason to believe that we are on the verge of "knowing it all"
but there will never be an end to scientific discoveries....
2006-08-11 10:24:18 · answer #6 · answered by absentmindednik 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Never. There will always be something new. Technology can not stand still. Do you really feel someone could master all there is in the world to know.
2006-08-04 19:59:41 · answer #7 · answered by Marcel L 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It will always remain impossible to understand everything
To do so would involve the understanding of the thought processes by which we are trying to understand.
2006-08-04 19:56:30 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is an infinite question, because we will never know everything. The Supreme Being will always offer new challenges for us.
2006-08-11 16:51:08 · answer #9 · answered by ROBERT C 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Given your assumptions, I think that each discovery we make will provide new questions, and those will of course provide others. We may get tantalizingly close, but never quite.----
2006-08-04 19:53:13 · answer #10 · answered by Delora Gloria 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋