Quote:
Originally Posted by Orruar
[You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]
I'm glad you know the exact limits of our knowledge. I bet there was an ancient Greek version of you that said we'd never know why the stars are in the sky. We still are fairly infantile in our understanding of our universe. Hell, we haven't managed to get a human farther than 0.0000000000000000000003125% of the way to the edge of the observable universe. Making claims about the limits of our knowledge seems somewhat premature.
|
You did not understand my post. It went over your head.
You cannot derive knowledge about what is outside a system of which one is a member.
Imagine I tell you there is a color no human being has ever seen, and more specifically, it cannot ever be observed because its definition is, "a color outside of the system of color." What color is it? An impossible question, by definition.
The same thing happens when you try to think where the universe came from. If you point me to the big bang, or even God, if you so choose, that is part of the universe. What the question means is, what existed prior to the universe?
But by definition one cannot know. You cannot know something that is outside the system from which one is gathering information.
And this is why questions of ultimate origins (and ends) are unanswerable. We only know the thing that is. It is vast, has a history, has laws, has processes, has end states (heat death).
But we do not know why it is here in the first place. never will.