Why is it so hard for mankind to understand the universe? We have telescopes that can look into deep space, and see other galaxies. We know what stars are and why planets move around them. We have had the benefits of scientific method for a few millenia now and pretty much nothing is
There may be a world within your mind, but your mind is still within the world
out of reach of our prying minds and our constantly probing fingers.
But will we ever understand the universe: What are it’s limits? How was it created? When will it end? How many other intelligent species are out there? What is the meaning of it all?
Well, of course we won’t. We may have evolved beyond animal intelligence, and we may even have taken the first steps to evolving beyond our own limited human intelligences, what with our microscopes and spectroscopes, our laboratories and our libraries, our robots and our computers and soon, our computers computers, but we’ve still got a long way to go and no matter what great leaps we make, no matter how many times we halve the distance, the arrow will never hit the target.
We’re just not smart enough. No matter what sophisticated tools we use to expand our knowledge, the information still has to be processed by our human brains for us to say we understand it, and the human brain is just about a kilo and a half of gelatinous flesh, which is capable of thinking some complex and amazing thoughts, credit must be given, but it’s still pretty finite. Contained within one skull, behind one set of eyes, we struggle to understand the other 7 billion minds walking around the world on legs. Much less the mysteries of the universe.
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