With a hugre universe theres possiblities of anything....Not even Einsteins mind can compare to the unknown parts of the universe. I mean there could be another life of different properties. There could be magic people who can mgically create sopmthing out of air. All we can figure out is what we see not what we know. Huge universe the large universe cant compare to what we just see. Heck...we dont even know if the universe ends. If it does...then whats beyond that? If it doesnt end then why not have possiblities beyond what we know? Explain your theories to say. It is true then we dont know its so large maybe we will never find the end or the end is so far the universe will cease before its discovered.
2007-10-09 10:21:13 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
We do know the "ends of universe." There is a map of it, which I'm sure will be changed many times as our knowledge increases; this map shows the universe is not round as we might think. Its shape is more like of that of a blob. But as for "theories of only what we can study," would you have us study what we can NOT study? Those things might be the "essences" as defined by Plato, Aristotle, or Kant. We cannot know any of those. They are as Kant described them: unknowable. Ayn Rand is the only philosopher I know of who defined essences as being "conceptual" and described exactly what she meant in at least two books. *
If we cannot study "something," would you have us study nothing? "Magic people doing magical things" would eventually be proved to be using laws of nature of which we were not previously aware. What is beyond the universe? Nullity and void, which are not the same as a different form of existence. Outside of existence, which in its entirety IS the universe, there is no existence.
2007-10-09 13:03:31 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Whether we know of "the end of the universe" or not, we KNOW that it's big... Mankind has gone to the moon and beyond, and that's a pretty big trip. But this is the basis of all philosophy: where are we from? what are we doing? Almost everything stems from those two questions, and it all may seem to be going in circles. But I'll let you in on a little secret: it is. It's human nature to be interested in all things we don't know. Yes, we're trying to arrive to conclusions. But will that happen? Probably not. Our goal in all these questions is to hear other people out and take our own stance. Even if you aren't 100% sure of the world around you, taking that stance gives you that much more character.
2007-10-09 17:31:26 · answer #2 · answered by live*laugh*love 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I actually agree with a big portion of what you're saying. I think people, including physicists and philosophers, forget that the universe really is incredibly big. For all we know the properties of the universe and life in other sections functions along fundamentally different rules than what we've observed so far in physics and biology. Who really knows what happens thousands of galaxies away? I think we overestimate our ability to predict conditions very far away, just as we've typically overestimated our ability to predict the future.
2007-10-09 18:24:41 · answer #3 · answered by KatGuy 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
You're right. If one day we discover that our thoughts change reality, that the universe is infinite and we can mentally project ourselves to other parts of the universe, the kids of that generation will go, like :"took you some time...." ya know ? " We figured that out, what, it took you 200 civilisations, 20'000 years and trillions of lives lost to pointless labor? Nice going....dad!"
And we'll all head off to orion in our astral bodies for a nice burger in a beautiful alien setting.
......someone care to explain the thumbs down? What's up?
Frustrated from all that bible reading?
2007-10-09 18:22:24 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Why people stick to the known ? Because it is difficult to produce new knowledge. Truly original research requires to risk the occasional blind alley, something many are not willing to risk.
2007-10-09 18:31:47 · answer #5 · answered by epistemology 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Quatum Physics. We're on it!
Quatum Physics looks at what people know, and how our being and thoughts affect the universe.
2007-10-09 17:39:08 · answer #6 · answered by livemoreamply 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Each part that we can't observe, based on it's constituents, will have some influence on the parts we can observe. Thus, we can infer from our knowledge of what we can observe the general nature of what we cannot.
2007-10-09 17:32:32 · answer #7 · answered by neil s 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋