Opus 2025-191: The Impossible Dream

Will we ever be able to penetrate the time barrier?  I would ask, “How do you know we haven’t?”  This is one of the themes that science fiction writers have played with.  When you cross the time barrier and, say, go back in time, you’re very presence changes what was there.  It may just be the butterfly-causing-a-tornado effect, but those changes may make it so you never discover how to go through time again.  That way the discovery stops itself.

Eventually, science will reach a point where a scientist can pursue his dreams no further.  I don’t know where that is.  I don’t know if we’re even close to it now.  It does seem that the theories that the scientist keep coming up with are more and more bizarre and less and less realistic.  They are based less and less on facts, experiments and real science, and more on speculation and dystopian fiction.

Does God have a barrier in mind?  Will He keep changing that barrier?  If you don’t believe in God, then just fill in whatever it is you would substitute.

If there is a barrier, whether it’s God created, or just the limitations of possibilities, how long do you keep bloodying your head by pounding against that wall and when do you change direction and start looking for other approaches?

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