Valkrionn
The Hamster King
Bah. People fall into that mental trap continuously. Always thinking we know everything worth knowing... Think it comes from not being able to handle the idea of death?
Anyway. There is EVERYTHING to discover! We've barely scratched the surface of the universe! We can barely imagine what we'll find in a few hundred years. Or even the next few decades.
Also: No, we can't change physics... But there is nothing in physics that means we can't manipulate spacetime. In fact, one of the most plausible proposals for FTL travel is to compress the fabric of spacetime ahead of the craft, and expand it behind it. Since spacetime is free to expand faster than the speed of light, the craft would essentially be able to surf on a 'wave' of spacetime, traveling faster than light.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Carke's third law of Clarke's three laws.
tell that a physicist, a biologist, an astronomer or a medical scientist and they will laugh at you. for sure.
once again wrong. think if physics. most of our knowledge is still pure theory, while of course some of them has a high chance of beeing correct, or near correct. and it has pretty much to do with the every-day life. there are many, many examples of it. think of all that luxury were enjoying today. i prefer living more than 50 years. not 300 years ago getting older happed rarely.
we just dont realize, because the human brain tends to simply ignore things we dont understand (otherwise pretty much of society and politics would just not work... especially religion! ouch! hot topic! )
which takes us to the second detail: you need to train your brain to start questioning. which is work. much work. acquiring knowledge is work. which is another reason why not everybody is an explorer, inventor and so on, its not as easy as depicted in movies. real exploring often takes months, weeks of often boring, everyday-the-same research.
for many people its 'easier' to be creative than logical or researching. (although easier shouldnt be mistaken as less worth here)
you wrote it yourself - imagine.
when, what you call 'discovering' is working its mostly your creative part of the brain that is working, filling all that stuff you hear with more stuff coming from yourself. thats how entertainment, especially fantasy and soft science-fiction works, books would be four times as long telling every detail, its the stories that fill your brain and vice-versa the brain that fills the stories.
when imaginating you can think of what you think is true or not true, whatever. while working on real stuff you cant just say 'oh it was that way? - na i prefer it that way. from now on the aztecs have invented flying space-crafts. because i prefer it that way!'
research is something that goes slow and hard.
you need to find out how the game works before you can play it. while much of the future will surely not work the way star trek etc. show it, someday we will be able to bend reality in a limited way as we are already doing it, maybe not that far away from some of the ideas of science-fiction.
who would have thought 10 years ago a computer would fit into a thin plate of metal not wider than a book?
that doesnt sound phenomal because were used to it. not 100 years ago much of the stuff were using today would have looked like pure magic to the people. which brings us to the citation i put on the start. but in some way - it alters reality. the reality we have been used to.
im sorry if anything i wrote isnt understandable, writing that many english at once im sometimes using wrong phrasing and that stuff.
). Intelligence just isn't a terribly useful thing, and we likely developed as far as we did because of internal competition, not external; We were smart enough to out think our predators and hunt our prey, but extremely competitive. We developed intelligence because we were competing with ourselves.
