What if the Roman Empire never fell?

Yes science has rules but we hardly know even the tinest portion of the rules yet.

But the ancient roman empire to the their greater advancement would have a greater knowledge and understanding of science than we have their fore they would have more knowledge about the rules than we do.

So their knowledge of science would greatly surpass ours and their fore with our lack of understanding we would interpet it as magic.

[Marvelous Miscreant]

I'm sure he is.

[Marvelous Miscreant]

Look, even if they had survived we would not be that much more advanced. In fact there is a possibility we would be less advanced.

[jester_of_god]

You forgot to factor in the possibility that the materials required for said technological advancments may not be able to be found on earth and are therefore void. or that the only reason aliens would be capable of space travel would be due to an impossibly long lifespan or the presence of said materials. It's all relative really, depending on certain input a new discovery could rewrite all known laws of physics, but the chance of said discovery happening and not being overlooked are astronomically small.

[Marvelous Miscreant]

Well said.

[jester_of_god]

Marv also has a point. Most of the worlds technology was brought on by an effort to outdo the enemy in times of war. If Rome had never fell it would be safe to assume that they would have rulled the world by now. Eventually population would explode and the wealth of the country would be so disperced that no one could afford the luxuries of tehcnology  and instead focus on farming and trying to just survive. otherwise the robots would hav just taken over.

[Marvelous Miscreant]

Yeah, robots!

[Philote]

So in conclusion, nobody has a clue what would happen.

[jester_of_god]

Yeah trust me I've put a lot of thought into this when I was in elementary school....never relaly had to use it before now though.

[Marvelous Miscreant]

Yup!

[jester_of_god]

...............Okay I'll tell you what would happen, but I have to ask one question first.

will the roman empire eventually conquer the world in this scenario or no?

[Marvelous Miscreant]

You can't actually know what would happen. There are infinate possibilities.

[Philote]

They conquer 63% at most

[jester_of_god]

yes, but out of all of infinitum there is the most possible, barring some outer space event which did not happen in our past anyway so will most likely not happen in the Roman mock 3 past either.

[Marvelous Miscreant]

It is impossible to accuratly predict what would happen if the roman empire had not fallen when it did.

[jester_of_god]

Nothing is impossible, just improbably. and this isn't about if it didn't fall when it did, this is about if it never fell period.

[Marvelous Miscreant]

Well that already impossible....empires are always doomed to fall.

[jester_of_god]

Not always, just when somone incredibly incompetent takes the reigns, other than that you can keep them running indefinately.

[Marvelous Miscreant]

Right....Empires are doomed to fall.

[jester_of_god]

WHEN AN IDOT TAKES THE REIGNS. The only reason empires ever actually fall are for two reasons. Civil unrest/being defeated by someone more powerful than you. If you have someone who is actually competent leading said empire, it shouldn't fall.