Will science ever know everything?

 

indeed... some want to oppose "science" and tell you it's not able to demonstrate everything by natural principles (and it ("science") will always have something new "mystery" to chew upon) and discredit it to favour whatever the dudes believe in.

 

As such, when "we" try to demonstrate something scientifically, we're often doing it via maths, which is a human invention (just like "god" and "religions/sects" are) made from human logics... which is by definition imperfect.

 

Other foes tend to link "science" as the logic of atheism (in some respect, this is ok, but the short-circuit shouldn't be automatically be made) and therefore as an enemy of god & religion... therefore a target, like it is the case , here. As such, science is a human invention, a much better one than "god" (one of the worse invention) and religion (the absolute worst, since you're obliged to adore something that doesn't exist)... Whereas atheism is not a human invention (only humans believe in the existence of a "god", animals don't), nor is it an invention of any kind.

 

YouTube is the biggest crap displayer on the planet and in the virtual world hovering around the planet... 95% of the people will only watch/listen but not read the comments below (which are probably editable by the poster himself) to see the reactions to what's been posted 

In the early part of the 20th century, the great mathematician, David Hilbert, attempted to formulate a set of mathematical axioms that would form the logical foundation for all of mathematics, but he kept running into paradoxes and contradictions. In steps Kurt Gödel who proved that any consistent (i.e non-contradictory) system complex enough to encompass basic arithmetic (or higher) would contain statements that may be true, but are unproveable within the system, thus the system is incomplete. You can have completeness or consistency, but not both. Either way, there are things you don't know. If the system is complete, you have contradictions, so the truth cannot be established. If the system is consistent, there are statement which can't be proven, so again, you don't know the truth. Knowing everything is, therefore, logically impossible.

Nowadays, this question is relative to where you live and study and impossible in the rest of the world until the next event that changes it in your location.

I say this, because a lot of "religion", or something under that designation, is trying hard to wipe science and education, so it can control the things that it wants. In general, even the "Christians" are doing this in America, by making sure that they are changing the laws of the country and confusing the "law" for the public, with a "religion" for the public. This is a very scary time, and place for these things ... we complaint about may of the this and that from so many of the revolutionary forces around the world, but we are doing exactly the same thing with different tools ... we vote without ethics and understanding of what we are voting for in America, in some cases.

Thus, the answer to that question is impossible ... because tomorrow or the next week, the country that came up with that idea, is now totally controlled by _________ and that "science" is wiped from the map as illegal and improper. Likewise, some governments might make a religion improper and maintain some controls on it, to ensure that ____________ does not happen again!

In my own, pseudo scientific way, it will be impossible for the science to EVER know anything within an expanding universe ... why? The physics on it will be ever changing and spreading further than we know or can imagine, and this is impossible for us to see and articulate until much later and another generation and putting it in perspective is ever harder because humans do not live that long, and their memory, even today, is even further wasted and thrown away ... we literally ignore the sciences of yesterday because they are "outdated", and think those folks were not intelligent, when they were the "kindergarten" of what we are today, so to speak.

Honestly, and I try to not be cynical about it, this whole question is a waste of time. It will only take a stellar event a few seconds and the earth would be gone, including all the memories of everything we can think of and only space dust will be out there ... with a memory going nowhere and susceptible to the next stronger particle or set of particles of any energy ... thus, in some ways, our "projecting" into that area, into what is commonly known as "the unknowable", is something that for the most part is a waste of time and energy on our part, and sometimes an excuse to not do right and good in our own lives.

Sorry about the soapbox moment ... but there were around Santa Barbara some 35 years ago, a lot of folks that were getting into ________________ and they used these kinds of thoughts to try and trap you into ... admitting that you have no answers, which their ______________ did! Right! I never lost a single "debate" in that area, and many folks were just uneducated, and matriculated into a sort of religion ... as a way to ignore and get away from the place and times, and the arts and social revolutions of the time! Honestly, I found the whole thing pathetic and boring!

This Arsenal supporting mathematician does articulatequite well the impossibility of predicting a dice throw (or even his beloved Gooners' future results) citing Poincare's chaos theory and Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle referred to in an earlier post by omphaloskepsis