Nobody Knows

A couple of days ago, I made it a point to talk about how much easier it is to find answers to things nowadays. Gone are the days of wondering the answer to most questions: search is your friend, and it has only gotten better over the last 25 years.

Whether you want to learn about a 2000 year old computer, the observation problem in physics, or the history of coffee, you can do that with the touch of a finger or simply by speaking. Satisfying your curiosity has never been easier.

However, there are plenty of things out there that aren’t so easy to figure out no matter how much you search. For all its majesty, the internet is simply a collection of things we know, and there are far more of things we don’t know than the things we do know.

I’m usually skeptical by default whenever someone says “nobody knows” something. I’m skeptical because I’ve heard this my whole life, and most of the time it has turned out to be wrong. Still, there really are some things that are beyond our knowledge, …