What do we know

Mostly because I'm bored and I think too much when I'm bored I have a question.

We as a race, the race of Humanity, claim that we can proclaim a lot of stuff.

Just to name a few of things humanity claims we can do:
-We can tell how old the Earth is
-We can tell how Life was started
-We can tell how our Universe works
-We can tell how old the universe

So given what we claim to know and some of the stuff humanity has claimed in the past just how much doyou think we as a race really know about what is going on around us?

Discuss

Woo-hoo! Another graduate from the Comic Books forum! It's like the training grounds for the GDF, even though the next step should probably be something more like the Poetry forum.

All of what we know is less then ~1% of the true nature of reality.

Originally posted by botankus
Woo-hoo! Another graduate from the Comic Books forum! It's like the training grounds for the GDF, even though the next step should probably be something more like the Poetry forum.

And I put it here because this is where my question belongs does it not?

Yes, you are correct.

I can tell how old a thing of sour cream is, how old a rerun is, as well as how old I am. Do I get any points for that?

Originally posted by botankus
Yes, you are correct.

I can tell how old a thing of sour cream is, how old a rerun is, as well as how old I am. Do I get any points for that?

Originally posted by Shakyamunison
All of what we know is less then ~1% of the true nature of reality.

Originally posted by botankus
Yes, you are correct.

I can tell how old a thing of sour cream is, how old a rerun is, as well as how old I am. Do I get any points for that?

How do you know that you know? 😕 How do I know that you know? 😕 😕 How do you know that I know that you know that I... 😱 runforhills

Originally posted by Newjak
Sure you can get points for that
but you get an A if you can tell me how the Universe was made. 😛

So were do you think our reasonable certainty of knowledge drops?

Drops? Reasonable certainty? Knowledge? Made?

Originally posted by Shakyamunison
Drops? Reasonable certainty? Knowledge? Made?

Is it matter, Evolution, Astronomy based.

Where do we no longer truly know whats going on anymore 😛

Honestly. Nothing. I think. Maybe

How should we know what we know? We assume to know a lot, but most of it will probably be proven wrong one day... or not.

Originally posted by Fishy
How should we know what we know? We assume to know a lot, but most of it will probably be proven wrong one day... or not.

Originally posted by Newjak
I know but the question is how far up in science do we get before we no longer are sure of what we know?

Impossible to know.

Originally posted by Newjak
I mean where do we get into the scientific laws and theories where we can no longer reasonably assume we are absolutely correct.

Is it matter, Evolution, Astronomy based.

Where do we no longer truly know whats going on anymore 😛

Black holes. That is why there is a lot of theoretical study going on about black holes. However, we are never absolutely correct, because we do not have a grand unification theory.

Originally posted by Fishy
Impossible to know.

How about if I give us a reasonable starting point something that is generally accepted but is still a theory.

Can we be certain about Evolution?

No, Magneto isn't theoretically possible.

Originally posted by Newjak
So you think things like Gravity are impossible to know whether it is true or not?

How about if I give us a reasonable starting point something that is generally accepted but is still a theory.

Can we be certain about Evolution?

Gravity and Evolution are observable facts of nature. What we don't know is how they work. There is a difference.

Originally posted by Shakyamunison
Gravity and Evolution are observable facts of nature. What we don't know is how they work. There is a difference.

I can see that.

Originally posted by Newjak
So what you are saying is we know things exist we just don't know how they work.

I can see that.

General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics do not agree with each other on some very critical matters. Until we have a grand unification theory, we can't be sure of some aspects of physics.

Originally posted by Newjak
I know but the question is how far up in science do we get before we no longer are sure of what we know?