Don't want to nitpick but hearing test and prove in the same sentence hurts. You can't prove anything by testing. As a matter of fact you can't prove anything, period. But especially not by testing. You can prove things within an axiom structure, but even there there are statements that are unprovable.
The scientific method requires laws to be testable, i.e. dis-provable (is that even a word?) but no scientific laws are provable.
Indeed the situation is even worse. Man
cannot correctly theorize answers to every question out there. A well know and truly ancient example of this is the self-referential paradox. The earliest know instance of which is due to the Greek philosopher Epimenedes. He said,
"Epimenedes, the Cretan, says that all Cretans are liars. Does he tell tell the truth?"
This was problem was shown to hold for any axiom system (i.e. any system of knowledge) by Godel, in his famous Incompleteness Theorem. So no we cannot answer every question, even theoretically.
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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
That's true. However, scientific method requires the ability to test and prove hypotheses and theories to establish scientific laws and facts. Man may correctly theorize answers to absolutely every question out there, but I do not believe Man will ever have the ability to test and prove hypotheses, and therefore solve, absolutely every question out there. Those limitations will be based on the physical limitations of Man, something we have a limited ability to change.
Unless we can somehow raise our consciousness and capabilities to literal omnipotence, there will always be questions that are simply beyond our capability to prove, and some questions that will be beyond our capability to even theorize.
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