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This is, ironically, a question which likely cannot be answered. In many cases it's simply a matter of not being technologically advanced enough to find an answer, but in certain circumstances the questions are quite literally unanswerable. For instance, to learn of the status of existence prior to the birth if the Universe (and therefore time) is impossible. Even under the assumption that time travel to the past was not a paradoxical impossibility, to travel to a period before time existed would still be an impossibility. In this case, there simply is no explanation.

add. You should check out Kurt Godel, who showed that apart from rather trivial examples,

there will be theorems that are true but cannot be proven to be so,

and that there are also theorems that are false but cannot be shown to be so.

This 1931 demonstration threw a rather large spanner in the ideas that there must exist a perfect system of proof.

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