Does Science Answer All Our Questions?

QUOTE(Habble @ Jan 13 2008, 01:49 PM) Yes I have, actually. I've also read the whole series. I love the whole answer to life, the universe and everything. They need to know the question... Hehe, as funny as that is, the question "what is your question?", is probably the most important question ?!? We can only find what we are looking for, and sometimes you can't only know what to look for until you have answered a whole fleet of other questions. I think yes, we can figure out how things work even things which may be relegated to 'fantasy' at this stage. Baby steps people, baby steps. Cheers Hoopa

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No. There are many questions science can not answer. To be able to give a scientific answer to any question one has to be able to observe and in some way test the subject of the question, and it has to be possible for someone else to confirm the results.
Unanswerable questions: What is the meaning of life? (This question assumes that life has a meaning, other than the meaning we give it.) There really are ghosts, but only people who believe in them can see them. Is this true? (There is no way to tell whether the people who claim to see them are seeing something real or only hallucinating.)What does an electron look like? (no one has ever seen one.) Was Henry James a better writer than Mark Twain? (In my opinion, no, but that's just a personal opinion. All such questions are largely determined by personal opinion unless everyone first agrees on what makes one writer better than another. The probability of such agreement must be near zero.)

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"what will I have for breakfast?". I think these sort of questions (in time) could be answered. I'm not sure anyone would care, but they could probably be answered. e.g. as a person grows up they experience things, different foods, situations, emotions etc. A bad experience while eating one food may lead to bad memory when eating that food, and thus a dislike for that food. The opposite could be true for a positive experience. We do not yet understand a human brain, but perhaps one day we'll understand enough to read a humans memories and thought processes, and be able to calculate what I will decide to have for breakfast. As I said, I'm sure no-one will care, but we may work it out one day. Oh, if you've ever watched TV, then you've probably seen an electron in a state where we can control them enough to draw moving pictures with them.

Cheers,
Hoopa

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Are you going to philosophy the question, or are you going to go with the simple day by day approach.

Day to day answers are everywhere thanks to today's technology. And it is a pretty remarkable achievement. Wake up to an alarm clock, most days it is an electric to an old wind up. And then you have breakfast and hit the showers. Maybe you watch the news on a plasma TV in the mornings, when your grandparents would listen to a radio. You leave for work or school in some type of vehicle. And we all have heard the days of which people had to walk to where they were going. But you know, that people can enjoy walking, or even biking with ipods and mp3 players. You can even just chat away or surf the net while walking through the park.

I think the day to day advantages are through science, but for the more LIFE issues... Religion will take over, and I will not go into all of the great advantages when it comes to life and that type of spirit.

As long as you don't let your technology take over your life, then it is nice to have nice things... but they don't answer your questions, they just make things easier.

 

 

 

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