is it possible for one to learn every scientific concept created and learned by all scientists till today?how?

Question

Please tell me, encouragement would be nice. I am starting tertiary studies next year (I'm 18 years old right now) and I don't know where to start. My dream and reason to wake up every morning is to be able to know all that humans have discovered and have come to know. Then I wish to contribute an immense progress to the human knowledge of the sciences.
Please direct me.
Thank you.

Answer 1

There is now WAY too much.

Answer 2

In general I would say there is no way, however, one should always bare in mind that there seem to be exceptions to most rules. Some idiot sevants for example can do some very impressive things (though at the cost of not being able to do what would generally be considered simple things). At the time of the earlier years of the ancient greeks there were two main branches of what we would call science. Natural or "physical" science (depending on wether you prefer the greek or latin. And philosophy which was considered science of the mind and of non-physical things. So originally all science was called physics. Over the years though new catorgories got named off: mathematics, chemistry, biology, astronomy etc. Thats not to say those concepts didnt exist before but they were all part of base physics. The greeks were pioneers in geometry for example. The reason the new catogories were formed and recieved names is because such a large volume of information had accumulated that it had become virtually impossible for an individual to master it all, so it began getting broken down into smaller bites. Then when these smaller bites were atacked individually it allowed even faster gains in information causing the need for even further division among the sciences. The term physics for exammple now generally refers to those aspects in nature that didnt end up falling into their own particular sub category aka light, sound, heat, motion, etc. We've gotten to the point where there are volumes of info in sub catagories of subcatagories. You for example could probably spend your whole life researching the origins, physiology, behavior, and mutations of say just the common cockroach and still be learning new things by the time you died. Because of this, unless some freak occurrance grants you total recall and very unnaturally long life I do not think you could learn every scientific concept in it's entirety. You could however learn a little of everything so long as you didnt expect to be an expert in any one subject. "jack of all trades, master of none". I would disagree in the kindness of terms though with the answer of another which is that science of different fields could contridict and as such you wouldnt be able to learn it all. Different religiouns might contridict but that wouldnt stop you from studying them, more to the point there is never actaully any true contridiction in science, just what apears to be one. Generally any apperent contradiction is simply a product of our imperfect knowledge of a subject. For example there are quite a few people looking for a single unified thoery to combine the works of relativity with quantum physics. The real problem is that we just die to damn soon, and we just don't have the memory capacity. It is said people were just as smart (perhaps smarter in some cases) several thousad years ago. The only reason we have better technology, is that its taken this long, and this many people to compile all the knowledge. hope that helps.

Answer 3

Our science understanding and concept has grown into such a complex subject that throughout its evolution, they begin to branch out in different way, each having their own philosophy and concept. The problem here is, some of their fundamental concept contradicts each other.

I'm no expert to explain the details, but from what I've read so far, here are some example.

The fundamental concept of General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics does not agrees with each other. In General Relativity, everything is predictable, but in Quantum Mechanics, its all about probability. Albert Einstein himself disagrees with Quantum Mechanics that he once said "God does not throw dices". Both theory are equally valid today.

Then there's String Theory. Many scientist disagree with this theory as philosophy physics. But its one of today's leading Theory Of Everything with many great scientist working on it.

So, it's possible for you to read out and understand the basic concept of all this science theories and discoveries but if you wants to go into its details, eventually you'll have to choose which path you wants to take, which path you believe in. Are you a believer in theoratical physics or do you only accept experimental physics?

Our knowledge has evolve so much that it became so complex, and bizzare at times, but I think its possible for you to read out from the internet about the basic idea of all this current fundamental theories. Its interesting, but keep in mind that you should be reading materials that are meant for normal people like us to read, not those for experts with all the mumbo jumbo maths stuff.

Answer 4

Wouldn't it be great if we lived in a matrix-style world, and all we had to do was say "upload all scientific knowledge ever devised", our eyelids would flicker for a few seconds...then presto!

Answer 5

This would be impossible, because there is more being created in space every day, besides, there is so much to learn just in ur backyard!

Answer 6

where fantoom