科学中那些永远无法解答的难题

Will some of the biggest mysteries in science remain forever unsolved? BY SARAH SCOLES ILLUSTRATION BY OWEN GILDERSLEEVE SCIENCE, AT ITS BEST, IS A STRIVING TOWARD TRUTH. It is not, although we often think of it as such, the search for absolute truth. It’s more a process of systematically gathering and interpreting data about the universe to understand its past and present and predict its future. What results is the best approximation we can access at any given time with the information, methods and instruments we have. And what counts as the best approximation of truth often changes. Isaac Newton began to devise his apple-falling theory of gravity in 1666. It worked well for everyone’s purposes in the 17th century. …