Looking back over recent decades it seems clear that we (mankind) is
coming to know, in a scientific sense, more and more about more and
more, and faster and faster. Will there ever come a time when we will
know everything about everything?
I’ve asked a number of people this question, and all say “no.” But it
seems to me that the correct answer is “yes.” Why?
First, I’m talking about knowing all the scientific laws governing
the physical universe – nothing more, nothing less. The physical
universe is immense, but finite. Science has long assumed that the
laws governing our small bit of it are universal; they apply
everywhere in the universe just as they apply here. Given then that
the physical universe is finite, it would seem that the laws governing
it are also finite. And as we come to know them here faster and
faster, at some point it would seem that we will know everything about
everything.
This also seems to me to be consistent with what Einstein and others
have long sought – the ultimate theory of everything. (This effort is
well described by Brian Greene in his book The Elegant Universe.) If
knowing everything were obviously not possible, surely this group
would never have begun pursuing that ultimate theory.
How might we tell when we are approaching the point where we know
everything? I expect the growth of knowledge is gaussian. As we
approach knowing everything the rate of knowledge growth will
gradually slow. So by monitoring this rate of growth we should be able
to predict when we will know everything. Right?
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