The difficulties associated with what our minds can understand by what we can see and what actually occurs are vast. One of our greatest counters to this is scientific history. We are very lucky to have the mysteries of the very small and the very large investigated indepth at this stage of sciences journey. Imagine telling people about the complexities of atoms back in the day. What a fantastic time we live in.
Since we have these benifits to draw on , it's surprising to me that so much about the overview of the interactions is still not compacting into a cohesive theory. I personally blame the practical applications of infinity and the theories which would cease to be correct without it.
So what' s good about science is that it hasn't shied away from making some things much weirder for everyday people. The "what could be possible" factor has fuelled the searches through the ages for better understanding.
At atomic level , what is going on is pure process , the atoms have lives which have limits and personalities that set them apart from other atoms with other pure processes. At our level we can be very clinical about processes like evolution in biology and geology. Yet somehow we get to ourselves and change the process view to something else. Sociology colours our view of other sciences. We simply cannot get away from the old question of "why are we here " . Even though we treat everything else as part of a process , when it comes to ourselves we "humanise" it and return to needing personal answers to our lives.
This is very telling in where you see most speculation in science chat rooms. I am very surprised every time I see positive arguments in favour of time travel. It seems so straight forward to me . Time is the difference between where EVERY single atom in the universe was positioned during one snapshot view of the universe and the next. Not just downtown Chicago , but the universe. I see people postulate that they would travel through time and I wonder what is being taught to them.
It is very easy to annoy a physicist , by limiting some of the logical flaws in thier posts. But these are the same people who can dazzle you with mathematical arrays to explain other areas of physics. I have no other explanation except our dream to not be bound by the here and now.
So we continue to here about mathematical possibilities to do with time travel and wormholes that will take us back as well as to the other side of the universe via a shortcut. None of these has any where to go except as dreams for one day in the future.yet they are spoken about by intelligent people as if they were proven reality.
Others look for intelligent life on other planets and the possibilities of contacting them. I can only surmise that half the parameters were left out when they applied for the funding. I read in a book on the Apollo landings and a quote by one of the astronaughts. I have looked for the book and haven't managed to find it , but his answers to the possibility of contacting intelligent life were very sound. The universe is some fourteen billion years old. Given that we have had radio communication for a hundred odd years , that is a tick of the clock. Intelligent life is possible , but the distances are breath taking. I can't remember it all but the distance meant we would need forty thousand years to get a message to the closest possible life yearling planet and the same for them to send it back. We might be waiting a while. Added to that is whether their evolution matched ours. They may have peaked ten thousand years ago when we were coming out of caves. Anyway the likelihood of our two civilisation s being able to communicate was so remote as to be zero. I think that is the reason why unrealistic theory like wormholes exists. Because unless they can find a shortcut , it's not going to happen. And they of all people understand the unlikelihood of getting there in the conventional ways.
But the reason for thinking this way at all is the belief that the universe is infinite and there is somewhere else that we need to find before the demise of planet earth. Of course , humans are much more inclined to move away from sticky problems like wrecking the planet , so looking outward for salvation has taken the place of looking upwards. Because the Christians believed in the world coming to an end , that is the last place a scientist will look , since Christians , in thier own way believed and predicted a finite universe. Scientists also predict an end to life , but only because the universe will expand infinitely until nothing can interact any more.
Here's the funny thing. If what I'm saying is correct , then no one's the least bit wrong. The universe (as we view it in a timeline) . Will indeed expand till nothing can interact. And as far as Christians , Muslims , Buddhists , Hindus , Orthodox Jews and every other religion is concerned , they could not be removed from my model. They were essential in every thing they ever did or said. It's a process , so nothing can be removed. If they want God. What could follow thier doctrine more correctly than for a single entity to be critical in the make up and creation of them and the universe. So they will be "forever one with God" go hard .
The thing is , that science is looking for"the theory of everything" or "TOE" as it's known. But they seem to be picking and choosing what is everything. At which point are they going to say that counts and that doesn't. It must be everything.
All processes must be included in this concept or it can be challenged. Infinity doesn't help the search since it leaves every end open. For me we will never know how big the universe is or how small the smallest individual part of it is. But we can know that the limits exist and with that we can map the behaviours enough to get a definitive result.since we can measure the middle , there is a clear outside parameter , and through that we get our measurement for lineal time.
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