Jim, really speaking beyond mere more terms and thoughts, I do not even know how the dog derives many, many times more from the bone I discarded as nothing ! The fact is empirical. But do I understand it ? I do not know.
The other day, a journalist academic analysed racism and opined : We are not racists. Just that some among us are ignorant and, hence, display their prejudices which seem racist. That, I found, was a mere explanation of racist behaviour. It was irrelevent to the question : Are we racist ? I believe that alongwith science, which indeed we might know everything of, we need to know the answer to such questions, which is what I am afraid we ALL will never know ALL at the SAME TIME, for ALL TIME. On Jun 28, 1:20 am, retiredjim34 <[email protected]> wrote: > 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? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Minds-Eye?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
