Edited by author 05-25-2005 05:17 PM
My dear Louise, how correct you are. We don't understand enough about the real universe to fashion tools for exploring it - yet. In our lifetimes, basic research has revealed completely new questions - never mind the answers. In 1958, I remember questioning my Physics professor: "electricity and magnetism rules don't make sense". Back then Quantum Mechanics was the black arts. Ok, so there's electricity, magnetism, gravity, and... what force sucks stuff into black holes... and... what are black holes anyway... and ESP is some sort of energy/force, isn't it? It's all related. There's an equation, but we don't know the variables - yet.

Why doesn't human culture advance like science? Why does a generation have to die to give up bad philosophy? Why do we keep hating and hurting each other on this small planet? A lot of things don't make sense.

Scientists say that one day we might not have to die.

It's fun to think. :-)