I agree completely (LMAO)...
Let's get a little perspective here people. We're talking about 100...frigging... billion, years in the future for pete's sake. It's very reasonable to say that physics in the year
4807
will be
unrecognisable compared to 2007
at the rate things are presently going. And, err, that's "only" 2800 years away!! I don't know how you count your billions, but to me 100 billion is 100,000,000,000 years! I mean, Jesus, get a grip!!
Our descendants will probably find our present discussion very amusing (if they generally find things amusing). Judas Priest, even scientists of just 50 years ago have become red-faced by saying a technology is impossible when it frequently turns out to be otherwise. If the "scientists" who made this study expect it to be meaningful then, I'm very disappointed. But they wouldn't be the only physicists in history that seem incapavle of thinking outside of their limited existence and experiences; most are like this. This attitude probably impedes our progress.
So, the physicists should concentrate on making the future happen rather than speculating on what future scientists might think. Besides, how do we know that our future brethren didn't create the friggin' universe in the first place? The term "future" may lose it's meaning in thousands of years of physics research, not millions or (good lord) billions. Let's get a sense of scale if we can.
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- 4807
will be- unrecognisable compared to 2007
at the rate things are presently going. And, err, that's "only" 2800 years away!! I don't know how you count your billions, but to me 100 billion is 100,000,000,000 years! I mean, Jesus, get a grip!! Our descendants will probably find our present discussion very amusing (if they generally find things amusing). Judas Priest, even scientists of just 50 years ago have become red-faced by saying a technology is impossible when it frequently turns out to be otherwise. If the "scientists" who made this study expect it to be meaningful then, I'm very disappointed. But they wouldn't be the only physicists in history that seem incapavle of thinking outside of their limited existence and experiences; most are like this. This attitude probably impedes our progress. So, the physicists should concentrate on making the future happen rather than speculating on what future scientists might think. Besides, how do we know that our future brethren didn't create the friggin' universe in the first place? The term "future" may lose it's meaning in thousands of years of physics research, not millions or (good lord) billions. Let's get a sense of scale if we can.