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Craig, although you are most likely vehemently disagree with me all of this is just pure speculations. Until we are able to visit the star that that is close to us we are able to reasonably describe what interaction exist between two close by solar systems.
Until we are able to roam our Galaxy at will, we will not know for sure how our Galaxy works.
Until we are able to visit some neighbouring galaxy we wont be absolutely sure that laws of physics that govern our reality are same as they are couple hundred thousand light years distant.
I got no doubt that you are exceptionally intelligent and well-informed person. And I must admit that some twenty or thirty years ago I had similar approach to the science.
All what I’m asking from you is sit back and have look on history of the mankind and the science. I seems that our understanding of the reality of our surroundings is expanding logarithmically as it has been indeed in the past. But history shows that that understanding of reality has been many times totally wrong. Indeed if our course of scientific knowledge is correct, in few centuries (given logarithmic increase in our understanding) we should be able to understand the Universe for what it is and adjust our existence to be independent of our planet.
I see that as very unlikely. I do support research and the discoveries in all the fields of the science. What I do object is that today’s scientist (same as some of the learned men in the time gone past) present their musing abound the reality as ultimate knowledge or the truth of the reality.
Many say that maths rule all of the science. I do not dispute that. Then take our collective knowledge of the physics and cosmology from around 1000 BC and calculate what should be our knowledge in the 2500 AD.
Regards
Karl
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