Quantum gravity

We are organisms built to survive and reproduce in the environments that evolved on the surface of this planet. We do not have any built in instrument to investigate reality outside of what is/was necessary for those goals. How can we understand how quantum gravity works? Only by building a thinking machine able to investigate reality and then, like Vger 6, come back and translate it for us.

The StarTrek film about the return of Voyager 6 to meet its maker ends with the human proposing an unsolvable paradox (invented by an Ancient Greek) and the defeat of the thing. It is interesting to speculate what would have happened if instead of self-destruct, V-ger would have transmitted to humanity the knowledge it had collected. It did not and StarTrek proceeded to the next chapter with Captain Kirk stupid as he was before. That is what I remember.

Yet the film's website states that "Decker rewired the relay connection and keyed in the final sequence of the transmission manually. This prompted V'ger to begin transmitting its data, effectively merging with Decker, thus taking V'ger to a new level of existence. At last satisfied with its answers, V'ger disappeared in a blinding flash of white light". 

It was left unsaid what happened to V'ger's data and how it affected humanity. Very unsatisfying end. 

BTW, a Vulcan scientist T'Uerell, after deciphering the secrets of the Borg Collective, uncovered evidence that it was V'Ger who first created the Collective to serve as heralds in its search for its Creator.