Separating The Impossible From The Improbable..

What is impossible? What defines such an absolute term of phrase in this day and age.. I feel this term has changed its meaning and become less used and needed in today's ever evolving world.

Two hundred years ago, if I were to say that we would be flying around in metal machines, travelling hundreds of miles in mere hours and travelling into the heavens where the stars reside, each of these possibilities would of been met with immediate ridicule and be dismissed as impossible by the high majority.

Here we are however, in the age of technology and at the pinnacle of development in our current civilised status. The world now, with the influence and expansion of science, industry and technology has become a very different place. This is now a place where the term impossible is met with curiosity and wonder instead of dismissal.


Will we be able to create a robot that could operate exactly like a human? Possibly.

Will we be able to exceed the speed of light? Improbable, not impossible.

Many more questions reside in this category and as we develop, we have begun to have a whole new concept of what is possible and what really defines 'impossible'. The faith we have in science has risen to a point where almost anything cannot be 100% ruled out. Science fiction today may one day become science fact, and there can be no definitive rule that could categorically say otherwise.