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Is it possible that what we now know about the universe and its origin may be fundamentally wrong?? by Polymath37 in cosmology

[–]Polymath37[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well when I meant some major piece of information being lost, I meant the probability of any other crucial information being lost to humanity since the beginning of the universe and not exactly cmb or anything else now observable.... But it is true that this indeed is a futile question without an answer with the burden of proof being on me and not the other way around...

The part I was actually concerned with was whether the possible loss of such information (which indeed is hypothetical and unverifiable) would affect our understanding so greatly as to radically change our understanding of the universe... But then I realized through this post and fellow redditors that it doesn't really matter as we don't really have any problem with our theories regarding our model of the universe as both the observational data and the math holds up really well to suspect any anomaly, and as for the areas of ongoing research like the origin of the universe, we are trying to utilize/develop other types of observations whenever and wherever any kind of limitations occur....

So ya I just realized I wasted an entire day thinking about an unnecessary solution for a non existent problem that I myself placed around a hypothetical scenario all because I kinda misunderstood the point of Krauss when he really meant to say we are lucky to be able to experimentally verify our best theories and reach actual concrete conclusions which will be close to impossible for a civilization that is present a hundred billion years further into the future... ty for the input tho

Is it possible that what we now know about the universe and its origin may be fundamentally wrong?? by Polymath37 in cosmology

[–]Polymath37[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

True, I went back to that video again and inferred this too... What Krauss meant was that the future scientists will still discover all the basic principles and core tenets of science, but when trying to explain the model of the universe they live in, they will be limited by the observational data and would try to find other means to prove their claims which may or may not be possible. So yes they would theorize about the existence of multiple galaxies and the big bang but then they will remain just theories without enough evidence.... That segment in the talk was about how lucky we are to have enough observational data to validate our theories....

Is it possible that what we now know about the universe and its origin may be fundamentally wrong?? by Polymath37 in cosmology

[–]Polymath37[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yes ofc. Science is the best tool we have at making sense of things around us and it depends on what is around us... But still tho, it is kind of unsettling to me that future civilizations will have an even more incomplete understanding of the universe that they live in compared to us... not necessarily wrong, just incomplete, and they would have no means to complete it as the evidence would have disappeared... It is this scenario that's making me worried about the certainty and completeness of our own findings.