Is Duplication even possible?

Question

And is it possible for something to be inexplicable?

Answer 1

I'd say yes...but then I don't know how to explain it.

The ability to explain, and therefore duplicate, is based on what we know and the tools we have for exploration. What I think you're getting at is, "...is it possible for something to be inexplicable even though we know everything there is to know and have all the tools we need to explore it?" In other words, might there be phenomena in our frame of being that are simply beyond mankind's grasp to comprehend even with all the knowledge and tools mankind can muster?

Who knows? It certainly seems that way now; but a thousand years from now, if mankind survives that long, who knows where scientific inquiry will have taken us? It wasn't that long ago when sending pictures through the air was strictly science fiction; now we have the SciFi channel on TV.

I once read somewhere that someone has said, "If mankind can think of it, it will do it." There are a lot of things mankind has thought of, but cannot do...up to this point. Teleportation, for example...but wait, teleportation, using a phenomenon called quantum entanglement, has been done...just recently. OK, dark matter, no one has seen dark matter...ooops, some Stanford brains just did...only a few weeks ago. [See sources.]

You get the point...perhaps that someone is right after all...if mankind can think of it, it will (ultimately) do it.

Answer 2

Inexplicable: Unable to be explained. I believe that is possible, but we are constantly 'moving the goalposts' of what we are able to explain. For duplication, that depends on your meaning. Does a photocopier 'duplicate' a document? If that is what you mean, we do it all the time. Do you mean creating an exact replica of a living being that is also alive? That is naturally and entirely different issue. I doubt we will ever accomplish it.