Will Science One Day Provide The Answer--The Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything Else?

It is impossible to imagine the future.

A paradigm shift is not something small. It is a complete change in mentality, and it takes a great effort to make that change. Stubbornness will make that change even harder, and usually a paradigm shift occurs over a generation. When Einstein's theories of relativity showed scientists that Newton's laws were imperfect, it was not an immediate change; it didn't happen over night. When we try to think of what the future may hold for science, it is very hard to imagine a new theory disproving Einstein's, for example. However, the same held true for the people before Einstein. In Newton's day, it would have been hard to imagine anything else. And even longer ago, it would have been hard to imagine that the earth was round. It is very interesting to see older movies that portray the future. Have you seen the films Back to the Future? In that movie, the future holds hover-boards and time-machines. Will the future have hover boards? I'd like one! We can't know, however. It seems hard to imagine anything better than, say, an iPod. (Besides one with more memory) But it was also impossible for people with record players back in the day to imagine that such tiny devices as iPods would be able to store all that music. So what I'm saying is that the future of science cannot be predicted.
Science is about testing what is known, in order to find truth. So what if the final theory is made: The answer to life, the universe, and everything else? Won't scientists keep running tests to find out if it is true or not? Will they ever stop? Because if they do, and there is more then they will miss out. I don't think that science holds all the answers. In fact, it leaves many questions unanswered. That does not mean that I believe science to be a useless endeavour, not at all! We owe it to ourselves to explore science to the fullest. But there are other things that should be pursued; science should not be the sole object of life.

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