the unknown frontier
the un-NOHN frun-TEER
ðə ʌnˈnoʊn frʌnˈtɪərListen
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the boundary between what is currently understood and the vast territory of what remains to be discovered; the region of human knowledge characterised by open questions, unresolved paradoxes, and phenomena not yet explained; used in science communication and exploration to evoke the romance and urgency of inquiry directed at what lies beyond the current edge of understanding; the frontier metaphor implies that knowledge is territorial and expandable, and that the greatest adventure lies not in rehearsing what is known but in venturing where understanding has not yet reached
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