• Question: how would you feel if you could know everything in the world and what would you do with that amount of knowledge

    Asked by 522tema27 to Pierre on 10 Nov 2014.
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      Pierre Lasorak answered on 10 Nov 2014:


      Hello
      Well, I think I would probably find the world very boring then, because if everything is predictable, then there is not thrill any more!
      I don’t think it is possible for humans to understand fully the world, and that’s partly because the world is not fundamentally made for us. The only thing physicists do is to interpret what they see and build up some theories that we use as human to do some predictions. There are several limitations of this: First, are we sure we can see everything? Second, maybe we are in a particular place in the universe where we can explain the physics as we do but that would not be the case elsewhere? Thirdly, maybe we are completely wrong and some new Einstein will come up in some time and make all our theories go to rubbish!

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