Science has often been shown to be restricted by conventional thinking. Witness the medical profession which resisted all the great discoveries. Great thinkers were sometimes put to death because their ideas went beyond conventional thinking.
Our world is basically unpredictable and "man" likes to feel secure. Thus the origin of all our superstitions and all our sturctured religions--all designed to create stabllity and predictablility.
Our history has shown that "man" can attain whatever he can imagine. Dick Tracey, Voyage to the Moon, Buck Rogers, Jules Verne, et.
We've yet to discover a lot of realities or even to understand our environment. These seemingly far out concepts and ideas are a beginning.
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