Same way people in the past probably said there’s no way you can make anything work without a mechanical mechanism? Can you imagine what an electronic device/chip would look to someone from far past? People thought humans couldn’t fly.
Those “fundamental science” is just us making sense of the universe in a way we can observe it and even then we don’t know everything. Can you imagine how different the universe looks if you just shift the electro magnetic waves you can see.
Same way people in the past probably said there’s no way you can make anything work without a mechanical mechanism?
No, I don’t think it’s comparable. We’ve figured out most of the big picture, now it’s mostly just filling in gaps here and there and making correction. I doubt there is an entire new force or field hiding that would allow completley undetectable communications from us. Maybe you could do something with neutrinos, we’re quite bad at detecting them for now.
Can you imagine how different the universe looks if you just shift the electro magnetic waves you can see.
Yeah, I’ve looked through an infrared camera and seen pictures from x-ray telescopes.
We have absolutely not figured out most of the big picture.
One easy proof example: death. Everyone will experience this feeling, yet no one has a clue what happens with 100% certainly after death. Yet it’s one of the most fundamental things about life and existence. What is non-existence?
yet no one has a clue what happens with 100% certainly after death
Of course we do. Unless steps are taken, it’s usually rotting and decomposing. There is literally farms where we study what happens to us after death. The physics of death are no mystery.
I see what you’re saying. But I also think the comment chain is speaking to the limits of our knowledge. The “limits that physics imposes on technology” is only based on what human beings have figured out through our limits of testing the rules of existence. What we can’t test, we have never been able to prove. And some things we may never be able to test or prove (such as Dark Matter).
It’s easy to say there isn’t evidence of something, just as easy as it is to say that it’s because it’s past our limit/ability to test those things right now.
But I also think the comment chain is speaking to the limits of our knowledge. The “limits that physics imposes on technology” is only based on what human beings have figured out through our limits of testing the rules of existence
Absolutly, I’m not disputing that.
My point was going in the opposite direct. Some of the stuff we know we can be pretty sure about so I’d say it’s safe to assume that even an advanced alien technology couldn’t get around them. Like the speed of light, conservation of energy, entropy, etc.
It’s easy to say there isn’t evidence of something, just as easy as it is to say that it’s because it’s past our limit/ability to test those things right now.
Right, but when considering practical applications, like technology, it doesn’t really make a difference. If something exists but I don’t know (and currently can’t know) that it exists, it might as well not exist. The result is the same.
Just called it a bit too early. But that’s mostly where we at now, technology is just catching up to theoretical physics. But I doubt we’ll get many more discoveries on the same society-changing level like electricity or radio waves were.
But hey, it would be much more interesting if I’m wrong.
I think it’s very unlikely that there will ever be a technology that can get around fundamental laws of nature, like entropy.
Phase shifting into a different dimension
shifting into other dimensions would probably take a lot of energy and produce heat
Same way people in the past probably said there’s no way you can make anything work without a mechanical mechanism? Can you imagine what an electronic device/chip would look to someone from far past? People thought humans couldn’t fly.
Those “fundamental science” is just us making sense of the universe in a way we can observe it and even then we don’t know everything. Can you imagine how different the universe looks if you just shift the electro magnetic waves you can see.
No, I don’t think it’s comparable. We’ve figured out most of the big picture, now it’s mostly just filling in gaps here and there and making correction. I doubt there is an entire new force or field hiding that would allow completley undetectable communications from us. Maybe you could do something with neutrinos, we’re quite bad at detecting them for now.
Yeah, I’ve looked through an infrared camera and seen pictures from x-ray telescopes.
We have absolutely not figured out most of the big picture.
One easy proof example: death. Everyone will experience this feeling, yet no one has a clue what happens with 100% certainly after death. Yet it’s one of the most fundamental things about life and existence. What is non-existence?
Of course we do. Unless steps are taken, it’s usually rotting and decomposing. There is literally farms where we study what happens to us after death. The physics of death are no mystery.
I’m talking about the nature of the soul and spirit.
But this comment chain is about the limits that physics imposes on technology.
There is no evidence for the existence of souls or spirits, so they don’t really factor into that discussion.
I see what you’re saying. But I also think the comment chain is speaking to the limits of our knowledge. The “limits that physics imposes on technology” is only based on what human beings have figured out through our limits of testing the rules of existence. What we can’t test, we have never been able to prove. And some things we may never be able to test or prove (such as Dark Matter).
It’s easy to say there isn’t evidence of something, just as easy as it is to say that it’s because it’s past our limit/ability to test those things right now.
Absolutly, I’m not disputing that.
My point was going in the opposite direct. Some of the stuff we know we can be pretty sure about so I’d say it’s safe to assume that even an advanced alien technology couldn’t get around them. Like the speed of light, conservation of energy, entropy, etc.
Right, but when considering practical applications, like technology, it doesn’t really make a difference. If something exists but I don’t know (and currently can’t know) that it exists, it might as well not exist. The result is the same.
Lmao. I’ve heard that one before. Almost 200 year ago in fact.
https://4gravitons.com/2016/03/11/in-defense-of-lord-kelvin-michelson-and-the-physics-of-decimals/#%3A~%3Atext=William+Thompson%2C+Lord+Kelvin%2C+was%2Cmore+and+more+precise+measurement.
Just called it a bit too early. But that’s mostly where we at now, technology is just catching up to theoretical physics. But I doubt we’ll get many more discoveries on the same society-changing level like electricity or radio waves were.
But hey, it would be much more interesting if I’m wrong.