Can we never understand the secrets of universe?
June 13th 2010 22:52
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From: MailonLine
The limitations of the human brain mean some of the biggest mysteries of the universe may never be solved, a top scientist has claimed.
According to President of the Royal Society Lord Rees, questions about the big bang and the existence of parallel universes may be never be resolved because of the built-in limitations of mankind.
Lord Rees told The Sunday Times: ‘A “true” fundamental theory of the universe may exist but could be just too hard for human brains to grasp.
'Just as a fish may be barely aware of the medium in which it lives and swims, so the microstructure of empty space could be far too complex for unaided human brains.’
Lord Rees’s prediction has been prompted by the failure of scientists to reconcile the forces that govern the behaviour of the cosmos with those that rule the ‘microworld’ of atoms and particles.
While Einstein used mathematical calculations to build his 1915 theory of general relativity and 20th century physicists devised quantum theory, no scientist has since found the tools to unify the two.
Lord Rees added: ‘Some aspects of reality – a unified theory of physics or a full understanding of consciousness – might elude us simply because they’re beyond human brains, just as surely as Einstein’s ideas would baffle a chimpanzee.’
‘There are powerful reasons to suspect that space has a grainy structure but on a scale a trillion trillion times smaller than atoms.
'Solving how this might work is crucial for 21st-century science,’ the royal astronomer said.
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I am still waiting for that odd machine that shows up in so many long running science fiction shows. The machine that is utterly stupid, too simple and sometimes down right gross that nevertheless opens up a hyper-dimensional portal to some place a trillion miles away. And thus you are forced to conclude that Dr Fuzzy Logic was right, it was the addition of the cabbage juice that made a radio from the 1920s into a time machine.
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