A Physicist Against Negotiating Darwin's Barrier

Note: In its October biannual issue Applied Physics Research published "Negotiating Darwin Barrier" pointing out to the existence of an unknown part of reality we are not aware of. Physicists became alarmed. One dialogue is copied here.

He is a noted and accomplished physicist and he put it bluntly: "You may be right, and indeed our Darwinian brain keeps large parts of reality off limits. I say - let it stay there. We have enough with what we see, a wonderful world both in the very tiny and in the very large, in the very close and the very remote. It took us centuries but we have a robust model of the little things and an effective model for the big things, we soon will figure out a theory of everything and life is good. What do I care if out there there are 'things' I don't know about, and can't even imagine. Let them be! Peace my friend!"

"What about curiosity?" I asked.

"Curiosity?!" he shouted back "There is plenty to be curious about here in what you call Darwin's Cage. I don't need to venture into la-la-land."

"What about the possibility that this reality without, harbors a big danger to humanity? We could easily avoid it, but we are blind to it?"."

If something out there is coming for us, let it be. If we all go in smoke in a sudden there will be nobody left to feel sorry."

"It's not only me," he added. "Physicists who spent a life time putting order in the physics we know, will defend their work tooth and nail. Here you come, and you are not even a certified physicist, just an innovation scientist, whatever that is, and you tell them that all their work putting order in the data before them, did not further the understanding of reality. To understand reality, you say, we must first break out of the Darwin's cage, see what is outside this cage and then examine what we see analytically and come up with a picture of reality, and any purpose. thereto. You send a whirlwind into the mounting edifice of modern physics -- you will have the community of physicists as a whole rising against you!"

"Very likely," I said. "Indeed. Alas, one or two, here and there, will help me hold the torch. Our essence is our curiosity. No sooner do we surround ourselves with a ring of indifference than this ring is shrinking upon our heart and soul, extinguishing our curiosity and with it our lives.""

Now you left physics and you go religion" the physicist countered.

"Perhaps so" I replied, "Perhaps so!"