• Question: Will we ever run out of things to know?

    Asked by Zosh to Tim, Stephen, Sammie, Rachel, Mark, Lisa on 8 Mar 2018.
    • Photo: Tim Duckenfield

      Tim Duckenfield answered on 8 Mar 2018:

      Never!! In my experience, whenever you reach a good answer to one question, you ask three more along the way! Einstein once said something famous about this – in German of course, this is just the translation: “As our circle of knowledge expands, so does the halo of darkness around it.” There is always more darkness (mystery) to explore.

    • Photo: Rachel Dewhurst

      Rachel Dewhurst answered on 8 Mar 2018:

      Things to find out is only limited by the imagination of the person posing the question. We can all think of a new question to ask

    • Photo: Sammie Buzzard

      Sammie Buzzard answered on 8 Mar 2018:

      Not while we have scientists, it’s out job to find new things to know 🙂 The more we learn there more details there are to find out, e.g. a while ago we didn’t even know about atoms and now we have things like the Large Hadron Collider. There’s also all of space to explore of course!

    • Photo: Lisa Baddeley

      Lisa Baddeley answered on 11 Mar 2018:

      Nope! We are always learning knew things about the world around us. Even when we think we know everything there is to know about something then there is often a surprise around the corner. As our computers get more powerful then the amount of information we can store also increases. Did you know that there is 100s of times more computer power in a smartphone than there was in the spacecraft which landed on the moon in the apollo space program of the 1960s and 1970s?

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