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John L
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John L asked in Science & MathematicsPhysics · 1 decade ago

Do scientists believe that anything is unknowable?

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!”)

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  • 1 decade ago
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    you can't know what happened before the big bang (if the big bang did in fact happen)!

  • 1 decade ago

    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.

  • 1 decade ago

    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
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    This scientist thinks that every thing that exists is understandable. Eventually.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    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

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    How could they know if it was unknowable?

  • 1 decade ago

    heck no.... their is a reason for everything. each action has a = and opp reaction...

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