• Question: Is it possible to know everything?

    Asked by jewlz to Mike, Pip, Tianfu, Tim, Tom on 26 Jun 2012.
    • Photo: Tom Lister

      Tom Lister answered on 26 Jun 2012:

      No.

      For example, the uncertainty principle states that you cannot know the momentum and position of a particle at the same time – so you can only know one or the other.

      Anyway, stuff is changing all of the time so that, even if you knew everything now, it would be irrelevant the next moment.

    • Photo: Philippa Bird

      Philippa Bird answered on 26 Jun 2012:

      No, not by one human alone, and not even by all humans in the world. There’s too much to know, and like Tom said too much of it is changing (though you could know how it was going to change I suppose).

    • Photo: Tim Stephens

      Tim Stephens answered on 26 Jun 2012:

      No. Your brain isn’t able to hold that much information.

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