Oftentimes I have heard people say the math is theoretically correct but the technology of the time doesn’t allow for the technology to be produced. Can someone explain how we can solve math for someone not physically possible at the current time?
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I think it this way. For something to be scientifically true, it has to be proven. Until it’s proven, it’s just a theory. Now, some theories are more obvious than others and easier to prove than others. For example, look at free fall motion, which states that things will fall at the same rate of speed if they are in a vacuum. That’s was a theory. How do you prove it? You test it. How do you test it? Well, you need a vacuum for starters. What’s that you say? You don’t know how to build a vacuum? Well, you’ll just have to wait until someone figures out how to build a vacuum before you can test your theory and prove it. Now, let’s look at black holes. What goes on inside a black hole. Well, we have theories but no proof. So we can guess, but until someone invents a way to look inside one, they just stay theories.
What does this have to do with scientists being ahead of their time? They come up with theories that not only can’t be proven but also may skip a couple of steps. So instead of knowing A and proving B, they know A, guess B and C, and come up with a theory for D that turns out to be true. Their theories are sometimes not proven until many years after they make them.
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