Limits...

This week I've been reading about limits like physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual. Whether they actually exist and if they do how do I feel about them and it reminded me of a conversation I had at my last book club meeting. We were discussing whether or not there exists and end of "science" or rather is there an actual end to all knowledge in the universe and if it is possible for humans to actually acquire this knowledge.

We talked about whether there are physical limits that prevent people from actually having the ability to possess this knowledge. I'm of the opinion that human intelligence is a limiting factor on knowledge and others in the group are of a differing opinion.

When I came back from the meeting someone made a joking (I hope they were joking) comment about our group finding some grand unified theory of the universe (in case it hasn't dawned on you yet it's a science book club, most specifically physics). I said I don't think there is a grand unifying theory of the universe. I think there are some approximations that account for some things (i.e. string theory). I feel like this is one of the areas where we have hit our limiting factor. We can approach this knowledge repeatedly from infinitely many directions and still go asymptotically off to zero knowledge of an actual unified theory.

I could try to explain why, but I think few people would truly appreciate the irony of the practice of searching for something that ultimately leaves you with less than you started with.

Anyway that's all that's rolling around the old noggin today.

As always have a good day and enjoy.