2007-02-15 21:00:58 · 5 answers · asked by parth2004 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
as far as the light can reach ,so there's no limit for the human mind
2007-02-15 21:53:08 · answer #1 · answered by Byzantino 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
The growth of knowledge in any area is limited by religion and culture and government. Religion is the main blockage to the pursuit of new knowledge because religion feels threatened by any explanation or logic to a phenomen previously thought of as the work of God. Culture and business are a close second and can prevent the development of new ideas or process because it will remove certain kinds or jobs and threaten certain profits and preconceived ways of doing things. Even when the new method is better. Government can assist or retard the development of science depending politicians point of view. Since politicians are never scientist the decision on what areas to develope are never done with an understanding of the subject at all. They only look at how many jobs this will create for my area and how will this help me get reelected. Politicians are very self serving individuals in the main with a lot of special exceptions. They seldom know anything about business or science yet they make decisions on how the country is to proced without any more knowledge than a high school student. We could easily slip back into another dark age if a new religion was to sweep the world. Do not forget the dark ages of Christianity they lasted for 800 years. All math and science, health procedures, laws, government procedures were all forgotten and had to relearned all over again. The Chinese history went into a dark age that lasted from 1300 to 1900. The combination of the Ottoman empire out Turkey and the Muslim religion have kept the those people in a 1000 year dark age state of mind to this day. Religion is sweeping the world once again. All religions believe they are right and the other guy is totally wrong. They have a very narrow inward looking point of view. They all want converts but none of them are willing to find a middle ground between themselves and the other mans religion. This creates prejudice and wars and and closed minds. Having all these countries on a world that is at the beginnings space travel is very amusing indeed. We should have one world government for the whole planet. Can you immagine if we came upon other space aliens and tried to deal with them with 196 nations instead of one world government. They could divide and conquer us so easily we would end up being slaves in no time and our fragile societies would be destroyed.
2007-02-16 06:44:14 · answer #2 · answered by Paul F 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The human mind can only go as far as the human skull.
2007-02-16 05:57:39 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
as far as we can dream. We used to say the Earth was flat and no one would go to the moon, but its hapen
2007-02-16 05:07:36 · answer #4 · answered by Mutley! 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
as far as his imagination
2007-02-16 05:04:31 · answer #5 · answered by siddarth k 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋