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UnthinkableIn the story THE DESPOILERS in the October 1947 Amazing Stories I raised the question, "Is there...
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Unthinkable
In the story THE DESPOILERS in the October 1947 Amazing Stories I raised the question, "Is there anything absolutely beyond human comprehension?" In that story I gave humanity a thousand years to give birth to one man who could comprehend the incomprehensible. The incomprehensible is harder to portray in a story than is merely the unknown. If we denote anything incomprehensible by the symbol X, we can describe what X is to a certain extent by knowing what it is not. We can, gradually, gain a certain insight into what it is by comparing it to what IS comprehensible. In the last analysis the universe of normalcy is incomprehensible. We have made progress in comprehending it because we have isolated it into small bundles of events that can be dealt with by the human intellect. We have arrived at certain basic pictures of the behavior of the incomprehensible. We have found a certain stability existing in the picture we have built up. We have searched the heavens and found that stars are made up of the same elements as the Earthwith a few exceptions. And with those exceptions we have brought them into the framework of our picture of the Universe by postulating "dense matter." ......Buy Now (To Read More)
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Ebook Number: 27491
Author: Phillips, Rog
Release Date: Dec 11, 2008
Format: eBook
Language: English
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Illustrator: Terry, W. E., 1921-1992
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