13 Things Science Can't Explain

[AmigaMan]

Originally posted by: AnitaPeterson
Did anyone else notice a BIG, glaring mistake in the text?
They're still referring to Pluto as a planet - they discuss about a "10th planet" in the "Kuiper cliff"...

Poor Pluto was downgraded to asteroid status some time ago..

Pluto will ALWAYS be a planet to me, fvck those scientists who demoted it Seriously though, Pluto I think is now referred to as a dwarf planet, so technically it's still a planet.

 

[Special K]

Originally posted by: AmigaMan

Originally posted by: AnitaPeterson
Did anyone else notice a BIG, glaring mistake in the text?
They're still referring to Pluto as a planet - they discuss about a "10th planet" in the "Kuiper cliff"...

Poor Pluto was downgraded to asteroid status some time ago..

Pluto will ALWAYS be a planet to me, fvck those scientists who demoted it Seriously though, Pluto I think is now referred to as a dwarf planet, so technically it's still a planet.

Well if you look at this quote:

"NASA's New Horizons probe, which will head out to Pluto and the Kuiper belt, is scheduled for launch in January 2006. "

I think it's safe to assume this article was written before Pluto was demoted.

 

[RichUK]

Another thing science can?t and probably will never be able to explain, is ? is space in its entirety the only thing that has and will ever exist? Is there anything beyond space?

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: RichUK
Another thing science can?t and probably will never be able to explain, is ? is space in its entirety the only thing that has and will ever exist? Is there anything beyond space?

If there is, it's something we probably can't ever get to.
At least not for several hundred years, anyway.

Originally posted by: Special K
Well if you look at this quote:

"NASA's New Horizons probe, which will head out to Pluto and the Kuiper belt, is scheduled for launch in January 2006. "

I think it's safe to assume this article was written before Pluto was demoted.

Yeah, especially considering that New Horizons is past Jupiter now.
And damn, they got a hell of a shot of a big plume on Io.

 

[AmigaMan]

Originally posted by: Jeff7
And damn, they got a hell of a shot of a big plume on Io.

WOW, that is an AWESOME pic! Did you notice the other two plumes too? Frickin amazing photos!!

 

[RichUK]

Originally posted by: Jeff7

Originally posted by: RichUK
Another thing science can?t and probably will never be able to explain, is ? is space in its entirety the only thing that has and will ever exist? Is there anything beyond space?

If there is, it's something we probably can't ever get to.
At least not for several hundred years, anyway.

True.

It?s hard to imagine that space is the only thing that has ever existed EVER, but it is also hard to imagine anything other than space existing.

 

[PClark99]

marked for future read, interesting stuff.

 

[Martin]

I think the most important thing that has not been explained yet is conciousness. People have vague explanations on what it is, but nothing thorough or satisfying.

 

[miniMUNCH]

Great read OP! I learned some things.

Science is always growing, maturing, and "learning". That is part of what I love so much about science. Look at how much mankind has learned in the last 100 or so years. Imagine what we will know in another 50 years...with that in mind, it is vitally important that the scientific community, and humanity (religious folks... you listening), keeps a completely open mind.

And... as I have always maintained, science and religion have little to do with one another. One is physical, the other is metaphysical.

 

[Electric Amish]

Fortunately these phenomena can be easily explained by religion.

God did it.

/thread





:roll:

 

[TheGizmo]

thanks for posting, i enjoyed reading it

the example they give for the placebo effect, just seems a bit off to me... morphine if taken for that long won't just magically 100% leave your system in 24 hours, chances are higher that the morphine was still in their system the next day because it was building up inside of them... but thats just the example that was given, i actually do believe in the placebo effect.. they just should have used a better example

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: AmigaMan

Originally posted by: Jeff7
And damn, they got a hell of a shot of a big plume on Io.

WOW, that is an AWESOME pic! Did you notice the other two plumes too? Frickin amazing photos!!

Not to mention, that picture was taken from 1.5 million miles away. It's supposed to fly past Pluto as close as 6,200 miles, at 31,300mph. Now it's moving at over 50,000mph relative to the sun. 2.44 billion miles to go.

 

[mrkun]

Awhile back someone had posted an MIT grad student's dissertation which supposedly proved that Cold Fusion is impossible. Anyone have a link?

 

[Analog]

And that won't be possible for another decade, at least. NASA's New Horizons probe, which will head out to Pluto and the Kuiper belt, is scheduled for launch in January 2006.

This article is at least 11 years old...

 

[Strk]

Val Kilmer solved the last one! OK, so it was Elizabeth Shue.

 

[torpid]

Some of these are very likely to be explained by science. Others, not so much. Placebo effect... likely. Cold fusion, not so much.

 

[Mo0o]

Alot of these are theoritical physics stuff. really cool stuff, it'll be interesting to see how much headway we make into these in a few years

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: Analog
And that won't be possible for another decade, at least. NASA's New Horizons probe, which will head out to Pluto and the Kuiper belt, is scheduled for launch in January 2006.

This article is at least 11 years old...

It's dated March 19, 2005.
The "another decade" part referred to New Horizons' arrival at Pluto, which will be in July of 2015.

 

[SlitheryDee]

Originally posted by: Analog
And that won't be possible for another decade, at least. NASA's New Horizons probe, which will head out to Pluto and the Kuiper belt, is scheduled for launch in January 2006.

This article is at least 11 years old...

" And that won't be possible for another decade, at least. NASA's New Horizons probe, which will head out to Pluto and the Kuiper belt, is scheduled for launch in January 2006. It won't reach Pluto until 2015, so if you are looking for an explanation of the vast, empty gulf of the Kuiper cliff, watch this space."

You left out a part.

 

[Vic]

Originally posted by: RichUK

Originally posted by: Jeff7

Originally posted by: RichUK
Another thing science can?t and probably will never be able to explain, is ? is space in its entirety the only thing that has and will ever exist? Is there anything beyond space?

If there is, it's something we probably can't ever get to.
At least not for several hundred years, anyway.

True.

It?s hard to imagine that space is the only thing that has ever existed EVER, but it is also hard to imagine anything other than space existing.

Spacetime (and everything in it) is the only thing that has ever existed in this existence. Arguably though, there are other existences.

The Placebo Effect could possibly be explained by multi-timeline hypotheses. Assuming that infinite timelines separate at every quantum time fractal, then the very power of thought itself (thought itself being electro-chemical responses in the brain) could create healing effects. In order words, we think our own realities by deciding which timelines our consciousnesses travel through time.

 

[iamaelephant]

Originally posted by: Vic
IMO, dark matter and dark energy are fantasies (the modern day "ether") used to explain away the fact that Newtonian physics doesn't work beyond the solar system scale, and science is dogmatically sticking to its Newtonian laws. I believe that eventually science will come around to the idea of variable gravity, and will even be able to explain it (most likely it is relative to the concentration of mass to the quantity of void space beyond it).

Since when are scientists "dogmatically sticking to Newtonian laws"? It's already been conclusively proven that Newtonian laws are only a (very close) approximations and that general relativity provides a more accurate representation of gravitation. And what makes you think you know more about dark energy and dark matter than the scientists who dedicate entire careers to the matter? You don't know squat.

 

[sourceninja]

Items 1 and 4 are highly related I think.

 

[Vic]

Originally posted by: iamaelephant

Originally posted by: Vic
IMO, dark matter and dark energy are fantasies (the modern day "ether") used to explain away the fact that Newtonian physics doesn't work beyond the solar system scale, and science is dogmatically sticking to its Newtonian laws. I believe that eventually science will come around to the idea of variable gravity, and will even be able to explain it (most likely it is relative to the concentration of mass to the quantity of void space beyond it).

Since when are scientists "dogmatically sticking to Newtonian laws"? It's already been conclusively proven that Newtonian laws are only a (very close) approximations and that general relativity provides a more accurate representation of gravitation. And what makes you think you know more about dark energy and dark matter than the scientists who dedicate entire careers to the matter? You don't know squat.

Appeal to authority is a fallacy.

In the meantime, I suggest you re-read #5. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_Rubin and her supporters certainly know a hell of a lot more than squat, and they say dark energy and dark matter are nonsense made up by the mainstream scientists who refuse to drop the strict Newtonian model. This particular topic has been of particular interest to me from some time, and it is my OPINION that future scientific advancement will prove them right, quite probably by the discovery that effect of gravity is cause by the mutual interaction of both mass and space, and not just by mass as the current Newtonian or Einsteinian model tells us.

Thank you, come again.

 

[Fern]

Thanks OP, interesting stuff.
Fern

 

[iamaelephant]

Originally posted by: Vic

Originally posted by: iamaelephant

Originally posted by: Vic
IMO, dark matter and dark energy are fantasies (the modern day "ether") used to explain away the fact that Newtonian physics doesn't work beyond the solar system scale, and science is dogmatically sticking to its Newtonian laws. I believe that eventually science will come around to the idea of variable gravity, and will even be able to explain it (most likely it is relative to the concentration of mass to the quantity of void space beyond it).

Since when are scientists "dogmatically sticking to Newtonian laws"? It's already been conclusively proven that Newtonian laws are only a (very close) approximations and that general relativity provides a more accurate representation of gravitation. And what makes you think you know more about dark energy and dark matter than the scientists who dedicate entire careers to the matter? You don't know squat.

Appeal to authority is a fallacy.

In the meantime, I suggest you re-read #5. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_Rubin and her supporters certainly know a hell of a lot more than squat, and they say dark energy and dark matter are nonsense made up by the mainstream scientists who refuse to drop the strict Newtonian model. This particular topic has been of particular interest to me from some time, and it is my OPINION that future scientific advancement will prove them right, quite probably by the discovery that effect of gravity is cause by the mutual interaction of both mass and space, and not just by mass as the current Newtonian or Einsteinian model tells us.

Thank you, come again.

So an appeal to authority is only a fallacy when I do it, but not you? Why, because your views are less "mainstream"?