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What can science not explain?

  • 16-03-2016 06:53PM
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,913
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    Dark matter.
    Why nine out of ten people are right handed.
    How the Suns corona is hotter than the surface.
    Why we yawn.
    Are some of the things beyond the wit of the learned lab coat wearing giant brains of our time.What other mysteries are we waiting patiently to have explained


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,447 endacl
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    There's a world of difference between 'can not explain', and 'has not yet explained'...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,496 irishgrover
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    God?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,452 The_Valeyard
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    Why Kneemos keeps starting these threads


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,913 kneemos
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    endacl wrote: »
    There's a world of difference between 'can not explain', and 'has not yet explained'...


    Not really.How do we know it can be explained?




  • Gravity.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,452 The_Valeyard
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    kneemos wrote: »
    Not really.How do we know it can be explained?

    Why is there order to the universe or perhaps more importantly why does life exist. The universe would be just as happy without life or existence.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 Nodin
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    ....why I have a pain in my gee despite not having one.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,447 endacl
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    kneemos wrote: »
    Not really.How do we know it can be explained?

    If a phenomenon can be observed and measured, it can be explained. The shortfall isn't the scientific method. It ps the observational tools available at this time.

    Here's some headway into the sun's corona question.

    https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130204094608.htm


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,447 endacl
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    Gravity.

    Has been well explained.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,913 kneemos
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    Why is there order to the universe or perhaps more importantly why does life exist. The universe would be just as happy without life or existence.


    Why does the universe exist?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,698 Topper Harley
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    How does a bicycle stay upright?


  • Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 10,463 xzanti
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    How they get the figs in the figrolls.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,788 brevity
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    What happens to the other sock.




  • endacl wrote: »
    Has been well explained.

    Gravity's effects are easily observable, but theories regarding its cause differ.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,690 Skylinehead
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    Why Kneemos keeps starting these threads
    The greatest mystery of our time.

    All we can but do is say "shoo back to your thread".


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,690 Skylinehead
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    Gwan, we'll give it a shot.

    Oh and most people are right handed because most people are left brained. Mystery "solved"


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,949 Mesrine65
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    How do birds migrate to & from the same area annually?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,690 Skylinehead
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    Mesrine65 wrote: »
    How do birds migrate to & from the same area annually?
    Magnets.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,162 MadDog76
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    The Placebo Effect.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,162 MadDog76
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    Why Stephen Hawking is still alive ......... ?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,500 Drexel
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    MadDog76 wrote: »
    Why Stephen Hawking is still alive ......... ?

    He knows something we dont :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,039 SEPT 23 1989
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    What exactly is the universe expanding into

    When challenged the boffins sheepishly reply "nothing" but I say to them loudly what's holding the nothing in then

    Nothing but silence


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,611 Valetta
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    How the f did Un De Sceaux get beaten so comprehensively today?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,500 Drexel
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    Is there more than one universe.

    I always imagined things like a map in a video game.

    Close up view is earth, zoom out one and you have the solar system level with however many solar systems. Then galaxy view with all the billions of galaxies.
    Could there be another layer? Zoom out again and have universe view with billions of universes ?

    Space is just too big to find out I suspect, we still havent landed a man on our nearest planet so how can we learn stuff about things so far away.

    I really believe that there is a lot of life out there but the distance will mean we never meet.



  • Posts: 26,052 [Deleted User]
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    Either God, the ghosts, Satan, or the guy with the shifty eyes is the answer.

    Miracle cures/nice weather/great haircuts/parking space where you thought there'd be none: God

    Murders/Illness/pestilence/pizza burn/papercuts: Satan

    Bumps in the night/shadows/unexplained sounds: Ghosts

    Mystery scratch on car/peeping tom/litter/fart smells: Shifty eye guy.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,040 12Phase
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    Why the Irish electorate have collective amnesia and what Americans find so attractive about Donald Trump...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,040 12Phase
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    Drexel wrote: »
    Is there more than one universe.

    I always imagined things like a map in a video game.

    Close up view is earth, zoom out one and you have the solar system level with however many solar systems. Then galaxy view with all the billions of galaxies.
    Could there be another layer? Zoom out again and have universe view with billions of universes ?

    Space is just too big to find out I suspect, we still havent landed a man on our nearest planet so how can we learn stuff about things so far away.

    I really believe that there is a lot of life out there but the distance will mean we never meet.


    We learned quite a lot from probes.

    Voyager 1 and 2 are *still* going!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,500 DEFTLEFTHAND
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    Innate conscience in human beings?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,174 Captain Chaos
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    The ultimate fate of the universe. There are 4 main theories 3 cannot be ruled out and it may be a combination of 2 of them but we need to now more about dark matter and dark energy to really know.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,040 12Phase
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    Why cats always land on their feet.

    Seriously, scientists who have tried have been hissed at and very badly scratched...


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