Human Mind—will it Ever Conquer Time and Distance?

Abstract

The human mind is very innovative. It creates wonder by inventing to meet needs. Someone rightly said necessity is the mother of invention. With the need of communicating instantly, the human mind developed telephones, thus, conquering time and distance for the hearing sensation. But the further quest prompted it to conquer time and distance for the seeing sensation and we had video calling and live telecasts on TV. But the real conquering of time and distance by the human mind in totality will happen when it can devise ways and means to teleport sense of smelling, tasting, and touching so that the whole environment containing all five senses is brought in our close proximity from thousands of kilometers so that we can, not only, see and hear but also can enjoy the smell, taste, and touch. Thus, in the real sense, the incidents are brought to us eliminating the barrier of time and distance. For this to happen, the human mind has to advance the technology to ensure that the remaining senses of smell, taste, and touch reach us instantly from over thousands of kilometers — we have already done it for sight and sound. Can the human mind do it?