Answering the ultimate question of existence requires all hands on deck
Talking about escaping the matrix. To study the fundamental building blocks of the universe at Planck scale require an enormous amount of energy. The reason is we have to accelerate particles to a fraction or near speed of light. With current technology of large hadron collider, the structure itself would be big enough to wrap around the Sun and we would have to harvest the sun directly.
But maybe that’s not the only way, maybe we can find a clever way around it with much more efficiency.
And there’s a group of computer scientists and big tech think they can solve quantum gravity with AI. Maybe they can. But that’s just another piece to the puzzle.
Then there are people who want to extend life indefinitely, so we can have more time to study all these and not dead before the answer is revealed.
There are also people who want to extend life to other planets to build civilization resilience so knowledge and life can be preserved if something go wrong on Earth.
Great minds from old ages like Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, and modern scientists alike.
A vast majority of people do nothing related to this but they help maintain civilization in various ways.
What I’m trying to say is escaping the matrix will require all hands on deck. Everyone offers a piece of the puzzle.