ABSTRACT

Limits of nature Scientific curiosity seems unlimited. During the last couple of centuries a myriad of questions and problems have been raised and solved. This has created the impression that science can eventually find an answer to any question and transform the unknown of yesterday into the well understood of tomorrow. Perhaps this is true for many scientific problems but hardly for all. The most fundamental scientific discoveries of the past also unraveled some limits of matter beyond which nothing makes sense. Such limits as the speed of light, absolute zero, and quantum of energy are familiar to all who read textbooks. The physical limits were initially predicted using a theoretical approach and only later were tested in experiments. These limits stand like absolute taboos in the way of gaining further knowledge.