RE: Do you want to live in a world where everything can explained?
May 4, 2013 at 10:44 pm
(This post was last modified: May 4, 2013 at 10:58 pm by A_Nony_Mouse.)
(May 4, 2013 at 3:07 pm)Luminox Wrote: In this world, scientific discoveries and research have stopped: everything is known to mankind.
Right! And the field of invention is open to engineers who come up with all the new things. And the medical folks and everyone else who applies scientific knowledge to practical purposes.
One you have all the science the real work begins. All the science of cars and planes is known. Everything we don't know is computational limits. Yet there is still progress in both.
Every problem with making smaller and faster computer chips was fully understood long before the engineers figured out how to make it work.
(May 4, 2013 at 3:10 pm)Gearbreak Wrote: I'm wondering how we would know everything is known. Knowing how we proved that would be interesting.
We can ignore Godel's incompleteness theorem for the sake of this discussion.
I would say simply everything which is observed can either be explained or fall into the category of not explained yet without the need for new physics. Right now dark energy and dark matter require new physics. Observations of stellar novas are far from fully explained but there is not the slightest suggestion that new physics will be required to explain the observations.
For example when it comes to medical drugs everything about the science of chemistry related to making them has been known for decades. How to make the reactions occur to produce them is not science but engineering.
