One Apple A Day #916 - it's impossible, for now
So many things are impossible.
Until something or someone show that they are not.
The boundary between possible and impossible depends on our knowledge, experiences and beliefs.
Lord Kelvin is one of the best scientists in history. Absolute temperatures are stated in units of kelvin in his honour. Indeed, he was incredibly knowledgable and absolutely capable of discerning what's possible and what's not.
In 1895 he confidently stated that "heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible". Eight years later, the Wright brothers completed their first flight.
Until the '90s, doing a backflip with a motorbike was considered just impossible. In 2015 Josh Sheehan delivered the first triple backflip.
Do you think it's possible to bring back to life an extinct animal? Probably you think it's just a fantastic story for science-fiction movies about crazy dinosaurs. The Aldabra is a bird that went extinct almost 100,000 years ago. The bird has been spotted, alive and kicking, in 2020. Scientists are now trying to understand how the impossible happened.
I'm convinced that many things are impossible.
But that doesn't mean they really are.
That's is why I believe in the impossible. Even when my mind says that I'm crazy.
In the end, as the overquotes Steve Jobs says, "the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do."