I’m curious what your take is on the finite nature of Science. I imagine the fractal “edge” will always remain illusive, but when do we hit 98% or 99.999% documented confirmed, distilled, and well explained? (Centuries? Millennia?) When does it become an engineering corpus?

(thinking of SciFi futurism as a much needed pick-me-up rn, please be kind)

  • Drunemeton
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    29 months ago

    Once we determine if the universe is infinite or not we’ll know more about what to expect.

    If it’s finite then we’ll have a stopping point. If it’s not then there’ll be no stopping point.

    Assuming a finite universe then I’d wager we’ll know all that can be known in about 10^23 years.