Science Fiction is right here.

By Artifacs · Sep 23, 2018 · 599 · 2
  1. Will we someday understand?

    This is just a thought to test the blog.

    I read "Are you kidding, Mr. Feynman?" many years ago. I remember the part where the Nobel awarded Richard Feynman explains how disapointed his father was after discovering that all his efforts to make him a scientist were pointless. His son still didn't know the answers to the questions he had mustered his entire life. His son was a physicist that didn't know what an electron was.

    It quite frustating indeed. Are the human being cursed to know only how to USE the Universe instead of actually UNDERSTAND it?. Maybe understanding is an overkill for evolution.

    We know how to use electricity but it seems we'll never be able to know what it is. Einstein made a theorical model to describe gravity but we'll never know for sure if the space-time actually curves itself in the presence of mass. All we have is a mathematical model saying that space-time could be thought as being that way.

    A photon has no mass, but its life is the most bewildered one. From its POV, it is everywhere all the time, if somewhere at all. We have to wait for a solar photon about eight minutes until we see it, but if we ask him how it liked the trip from Sun to Earth it would answer to us:
    "What trip are you talking about?".

    From its POV, it didn't even move, either time doesn't exists for it or it experiences all the things at the same time. How can a photon like that interact with other things in the first place?
    But it does.

    There are things in this universe that doesn't experience the same space-time reality but still interacts with it.

    Anyone are very welcome to leave a comment or correct any conceptual/grammatical error I could have commit.
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  1. Solar
    Good post.

    I think we need to be a lot more Socratic in that we need to realise how little we know,
    not just about the universe, but about ourselves. In my opinion, the current
    civilisational pattern has no authority for it has endangered the entire biosphere
    with its ignorant 'development' and 'progress'. That's a big achievement. No other
    species has been this disordered. Humans need to get over themselves. Stop pretending
    they know everything, that they're somehow superior.

    It's delusional. It's dangerous. It's demented.

    Solar, Sep 23, 2018
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  2. Shnette
    I think it's much too dangerous for us to know and understand everything. Humans (if that's what we really are) are just babies on the timeline.
    Although the human brain is remarkable, it is rather fearful and forgets quickly. Knowledgeable civilizations like the Dogon, Mayan, Olmec, Egyptian either don't remember the science or are no longer here to speak about it.
    What I find annoying about science, though, is when people separate god from it. To me, that makes no sense.
    Shnette, Sep 24, 2018
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