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currently, or perhaps permanently, too complicated or mysterious to be explained. And some cosmologists believe there are “super-massive” black holes at the center of every galaxy. Are these the residences of a supernatural galactic God? Or are they just crowded high gravity sink holes?
That black holes — or that everything — will someday be explained or explored is the leap-of-faith, religious aspect of science. Maybe science will, maybe it won’t. The incredible progress of science in the recent past suggests that we might. But no one can predict the scientific future.
Quantum mechanics includes the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle. It in part states that you can’t determine the velocity and position of an atomic particle at the same time, and thus you can never determine both of those numbers accurately. This principle is scientific support for the view that we might not be able to explain everything.
On the other hand, Einstein suggests that we
can explain everything with his statement: “God does not play dice with the universe.” It’s his leap-of-faith argument against quantum’s mysterious mechanics.
Maybe we’ll bump into a knowledge-type of “chronosynclastic infundibulum” as described
in Vonnegut’s Sirens of Titan.42 Maybe quantum irregularities and event horizons are permanent barriers to increased knowledge just as the infundibulum was a barrier to space travel. Certainly
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