Tuesday, 30 September 2008

Wonder World

Can you recall, our great grandfathers did not know whats beyond their land. And our grandfathers did not know whats beyond their roof.

Meaning, humans did not know what was the shape of the earth before Aristotle find few good reasons to prove that the shape of earth is rather spherical. Additionally, no one knew most of our celestial bodies and their significance in the creation of our Universe. But, being an intelligent animal, human found out few facts around them. Now, compared to my grandfather I know more stuff and concepts.

Now coming to the point, if we extend this pattern to our children and their children we can easily agree that our future children will know much more than us. So at some point of time, can we claim that some generation of us will know exactly what we don't know today? The intriguing questions like why the earth is spherical in shape and why most of our celestial bodies are revolving around one another Or rotating on their own.

Similarly, our great grandfather could not have possibly travelled few miles in one day using their old cart and Buffalo. And our grand father could have hardly travelled hundreds of miles. Now, we can round around the world in few hours provided we have sufficient fuel to fly! Also, if our Airline hasn't become bankrupt yet :-)

Can we simply apply the pattern matching concept here? Can we claim that one of our generation boys will go around our Solar System in few hours provided they have sufficient fuel? I don't know! But the question is more open..
Time to think again! Bye

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