Just afterwe linkedto the Physics and Cake web log ’s post about whether there might be a “ cap ” in the level of theoretic physics that humans can understand , Reith Lecturer Martin Rees wrote an essay for the London Times , explain the first of his Reith Lectures . And Rees does believe that there may be intrinsic limits to human apprehension of the universe :
https://gizmodo.com/what-will-physics-research-look-like-after-the-singular-5552142
Ever since Darwin , we ’ve been familiar with the prodigious timespans of the evolutionary yesteryear – the billions of years of phylogeny that run to our egression . We are more than just another primate coinage . We are special : ego - awareness and language were a qualitative saltation , allowing ethnical evolution and the accumulative diversified expertness that led to science and technology .

But we should be undetermined to the prognosis that some aspect of realness – a unified theory of physics , or a full understanding of cognisance – might put off us plainly because they ’re beyond human encephalon , just as Einstein ’s ideas would amaze a chimpanzee .
Even so , that need not mean that the cardinal questions were for ever unanswerable . That ’s because we humans need not be the culmination of the evolutionary tree : indeed it seems implausible that we are , because uranology makes us aware that immense clock time - horizon extend into the future as well as into the past . Our Sun formed 4.5 billion years ago , but it ’s get six billion more before the fuel run out . And the expand Universe will continue , perhaps for ever , becoming ever colder , ever emptier .
So let ’s hope our upstage ascendant are smart than us , I guess . I also love the quote from Woody Allen that Rees cite : “ timelessness is very farseeing , especially towards the close . ” [ London TimesviaHumanist Life ]

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