Essay Abstract
"Impossible" represents not the champion of thought, but instead the resting place of the champion. There's nothing like the siren song of "impossibility" to remind us of the futility of taking better aim, or to justify abandoning our reach. There's nothing like the shield of "impossibility" to permanently excuse our failure to understand, or to warn others against exploring that dead end. There's nothing like the authority of "impossibility" to make "there's no need to look further, no need to keep up the quest" sound reasonable. There's nothing like the "impossible" to explain why the time of heroes is in the past. Then again, impossibilities are also limits--boundary conditions. And the most natural way to make sense of a system is to explain its features in terms of its boundary conditions, as consequences of how its structural limits intersect. Does this logic extend to the universe itself? Can the universe and all its characteristics be understood in terms of limits, in terms of a simple set of boundary conditions? Or does the existence of logical limits somehow forever restrict us from the comprehension we are after, from getting beneath quantum mechanics, from finding a theory of everything?
Author Bio
Thad Roberts is an author, physicist, philosopher, and adventurer who passionately explores the possibility that quantum mechanics is not exact, but instead, is an accurate approximation of a deeper deterministic theory.