Posted: Oct 05, 2011 7:52 pm
One thing which is expanding is our knowledge about how LITTLE we know.
Everytime we make a new discovery it always seems to come with a realisation that "the horizon" is even further away than what we previously thought.
The primitive human who thought the universe was just a few miles from one end to the other or that you could build a "Tower of Babel" to reach God had a limited understanding of their own ignorance and short-sightedness.
How lucky are we? We get to glimpse "cosmic bruising" and faster than light particles, and dark energy. Our Towers of Babel, like SETI and CERN aim for that which is infinitely beyond us in light years and infinitely miniscule in space/time - yocto-seconds, atto-seconds.
Is there no limit to how much we have yet to learn about how little we know?
Everytime we make a new discovery it always seems to come with a realisation that "the horizon" is even further away than what we previously thought.
The primitive human who thought the universe was just a few miles from one end to the other or that you could build a "Tower of Babel" to reach God had a limited understanding of their own ignorance and short-sightedness.
How lucky are we? We get to glimpse "cosmic bruising" and faster than light particles, and dark energy. Our Towers of Babel, like SETI and CERN aim for that which is infinitely beyond us in light years and infinitely miniscule in space/time - yocto-seconds, atto-seconds.
Is there no limit to how much we have yet to learn about how little we know?