From a scientific standpoint, is anything unknowable or is it possible for the human mind to understand anything?
(PS... As payment for your time, here is a short joke I saw in New Scientist magazine: When the wife of a string theory physicist caught him in bed with another woman he said: “But wait Honey, I can explain everything!”)
Mike
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you can't know what happened before the big bang (if the big bang did in fact happen)!
Uncle Al
Physical theorists are suffering an intractably hard time trying to predictively model phenomena within a Planck distance. Nobody has any idea what originates sentience.
Nobody with more than a room temperature IQ can undestand NASA or the Commander-in-Chimp Bush the Lesser.
Regal
Well philosophically speaking, it is not possible to understand everything. We can never understand ourselves. That is what Godel's theorem is about as I heard somewhere. I am no mathematician though, I could have misinterpreted it. But this does look a little bit ironic, doesn't it =)
eri
This scientist thinks that every thing that exists is understandable. Eventually.
Anonymous
yeah... how does anyone explain the existence of the universe or this realm... like why does this whole place exist? just because... we dont and never will know