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Until Computers And Robots Make Quantum Advances, They Basically Remain Adding Machines: Capable Only Of Doing Things In Which All The Variables Are Controlled And Predictable. Robots Are Bad At Pattern Recognition And Certainly At Common Sense. That's Why Computers Can Beat Humans In Chess But Can't Have Even A Basic Conversation With A Six-year-old.

The Human Mind Has A Desire To Know Its Place In The Universe And The Role We Play In The Tapestry Of Life. This Is Actually Hardwired Into Our Brains, The Desire The Know Our Relationship To The Universe. This Was Good For Our Evolution, Since It Enabled Us To See Our Relationship To Others And To Nature Which Was Good For Our Survival. And It Is Also What Drives Our Curiosity To Understand The Universe.

When We're Born, We Want To Know Why The Stars Shine. We Want To Know Why The Sun Rises.

What Would Happen If History Could Be Rewritten As Casually As Erasing A Blackboard? Our Past Would Be Like The Shifting Sands At The Seashore, Constantly Blown This Way Or That By The Slightest Breeze. History Would Be Constantly Changing Every Time Someone Spun The Dial Of A Time Machine And Blundered His Or Her Way Into The Past. History, As We Know It, Would Be Impossible. It Would Cease To Exist.

The Europeans And The Americans Are Not Throwing $10 Billion Down This Gigantic Tube For Nothing. We're Exploring The Very Forefront Of Physics And Cosmology With The Large Hadron Collider Because We Want To Have A Window On Creation, We Want To Recreate A Tiny Piece Of Genesis To Unlock Some Of The Greatest Secrets Of The Universe.