I’ve been a bit bored of my fellow werewolf celebrities this week, so I’ve been spending a bit of time thinking … and you know what primarily filled my mind, my ant theory of course. You can follow the links back to all ant theory blogs, but to recap it compares humanity’s physical expansion and knowledge limitation in the mammal world to ants in the insect. And the old light bulb in my noggin just clicked on another exciting thought and analogy, so I just had to report it to you.
The Limits of Human Knowledge Compared to the Limits of the Physical
Thinking back to the Horizon programme about Black Holes, and how there is a gap in human understanding of the universe known as the point of singularity made me think of the 100m sprint race and how the world record is always getting broken but nobody expects somebody to ever do it without any time: in zero seconds.
As nobody expects somebody to do 100m in zero seconds, maybe we shouldn’t expect anybody to work out everything about the universe: because working out the point of singularity is the mental equivalent to running the 100m in zero time.
Celebrity Werewolf Thoughts: Recognising Our Mental Limitations
While we (humanity as a whole) seem to be happy recognising our physical limitations, we also appear just as reluctant to admit our mental ones.
Maybe our brains just aren’t capable of working out the system of the universe, as our bodies aren’t capable of moving us 100m in zero seconds.
Celebrity Werewolf Thoughts: Keep Chipping Away at the Stone
Of course, just because nobody is likely to do 100m in zero seconds during our lifetimes doesn’t mean we should just stop running and competing.
And the same goes for our mental quest to work out the meaning of the universe; just because we in our lifetimes may never know the point of singularity doesn’t mean scientists and astronomers should stop searching for more knowledge.
Maybe we should just lower our expectations, and appreciate what we have and know.
