FORGET about space being the final frontier… it seems that limitations as to what the brain can comprehend allied to the exorbitant cost of applying new technologies will stop us going where no man has been before. Some will see the hand of God at work here or might even accuse Stannard of relying on faulty science, but he presents plenty of logical reasons to believe that science is rapidly approaching the boundaries of the knowable.

Of course, Stannard’s conclusions may just be the very challenge his fellow humans need to prove him wrong, but for the moment the odds seem to be in his favour.