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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

We can't be sure of that. Maybe we will constantly be approaching the truth and never reach it. Or maybe we will just figure out every rule governing the quantum physics and extrapolate all the macro physics. Who knows.
Maybe there are meta physics responsible for creating our physics. Like, laws governing the creation of universes with different physics in each of them. Maybe it's meta physics all the way down...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The general laws of physics, sure, I have no solid reason to think they'll be forever out of reach (only doubt), but in order to determine if there was intelligent life (even moreso civilizations) in galaxies that have already stranded away from our field of vision, we would need to have immense luck for physics to allow us to cheat the limits we know about today.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Again, we can't even begin to speculate on what we'll know in 1000 or 10,000 years because it's so far beyond our current understanding. Practical time travel might be discovered. Or maybe we'll learn how to extrapolate the path of any number of particles all the way back to the Big Bang and effectively learn all of the past.