Reply #9: I'm waiting for the next Galileo, or Newton, or Einstein. [View All]

[Cyrano]

He or she may be among us now, or is being born at this very instant, or may not appear for another hundred years, or another millennium.

But it seems inevitable that our current perceptions of space/time/gravity, the speed of light, the realities of the universe, (and perhaps "reality" itself), will be greatly changed when/if the mysteries of "dark matter" and "dark energy" are ever explained.

Do parallel universes exist? Are we all living in some inexplicable version of "The Matrix?" Is the current universe we perceive one that has been reborn over and over, and will continue to do so throughout our definition of "eternity?"

At present, regardless of what we think we know, we are like ants trying to grasp the meaning and function of a single grain of sand.

Nonetheless, the curiosity that drives our species should/must be admirable to any superior or more sophisticated life forms that may be aware of our existence.