Allegedly, Einstein is to have said something along the lines of "The only thing incomprehensible about our universe is that it is comprehensible." However, I have long believed he said "The only thing comprehensible about our universe is that it is incomprehensible". Does anyone know which he said? And regardless, what statement do you agree with more?
2007-11-12 22:40:16 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
I think you'll find people more interested in answering if you go to "Philosophy". It's a discussion of semantics.
2007-11-12 23:00:46 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree with the first statement.
I don't know which statement was attributed to Einstein, he often made some awful statements in his day,but he always hustled to rationalized his way out of them.
An incomprehensible universe would be an infinite one,Einstein knew this,his quantum universe required a finite universe.
When he made his famous statement "God does not play dice with the universe", he had a quantum universe,which couldn't be anything else and he had an infinite universe which is impossible.
2007-11-12 23:54:25 · answer #2 · answered by Billy Butthead 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are no such things as absolutes and absolute laws. Nature has a funny way of hitting you in the face with exceptions.
There is irrationality. e and pi for example, they are irrationals.
We comprehend very little of the universe, which is why the greatest minds keep working on that unified field theory.
But the parts just don't want to fit together.
I think it's be an easier task to comprehend love before the universe!
2007-11-13 01:33:00 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The correct quote is "The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible."
I agree with Einstein on this one and not with you. What I don't comprehend is the (apparently common) psychological need to believe that there are [spooky music] [waves hands mysteriously] [eyes bulging in mystery] wooooooo.... things mankind can never understand!! wooooo...... wooooooo.... wooowooowooo, dammit! [/handwaving] [/music] [/eyebulge]
There is no reason to believe that mankind, and you in particular, can not understand the laws of physics which govern this universe. It just takes a little hard work to discover them, and then to interpret them. To believe otherwise is laziness.
2007-11-13 00:40:59 · answer #4 · answered by ZikZak 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The real one,not your malapropism.
The Universe is quite comprehensible, just don't get bogged down by the trivia.
2007-11-13 00:57:47 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
John Haldane said :"It is my supposition that the Universe in not only queerer than we imagine, is queerer than we can imagine."
I find it quite possible that the human brain is not up to the job of understanding the basics of the Universe. I think its sheer hubris to entertain the notion. Its like expecting chimpanzees to develop calculus.
2007-11-13 03:17:39 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
incomprehensible,and if someone says diverant their lieing.everything is speculation.we are marooned on a spec of dust in a vast void trying to see things that will never come into view.
2007-11-13 01:29:09 · answer #7 · answered by john doe 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
the latter. i can comprehend how big it is. but the idea of space being a real thing, that can be manipulated its impossible to understand. the idea of time having started in the finite past, the idea of nothing, no energy, no matter, and most importantly, no time and no space. that right there is the real meaning of the word migraine.
2007-11-13 00:00:46 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋