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What can science not explain?

kneemos

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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Dughorm

Steve012 wrote: »

That's news to you then

Are you taking the "god particle" in a literal sense?

Steve012

Dughorm wrote: »

Are you taking the "god particle" in a literal sense?

No, but they admitted they weren't sure what they'd find. Thus the unknown.
Ain't it?

Dughorm

Steve012 wrote: »

No, but they admitted they weren't sure what they'd find. Thus the unknown.
Ain't it?

Sure maybe Columbus only missed God by a hair's breadth when he ventured into the "unknown" as well?

Steve012

Dughorm wrote: »

Sure maybe Columbus only missed God by a hair's breadth when he ventured into the "unknown" as well?

Where did I mention God man?
me out for pintzies..

Night

Capt'n Midnight

Dughorm wrote: »

So has CERN branched out beyond the material world? News to me

Technically speaking the material world is really just the world of visible matter.

There's a lot more dark matter. And there's even more dark energy.

And yes CERN is big into stuff that isn't your normal proton-electron-neutron matter.

Eugene Norman

Steve012 wrote: »

How did I know you'd say that
Check out the books then, string theory, m theory, theory of everything.

Links. I read all these books. None of them talk about design.

Skylinehead

endacl wrote: »

What's an intensive porpoise?!?

http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lvfafaxqNh1qcofn4o1_500.png

ToddyDoody

Pkiernan wrote: »

How gyppos in a Hiace can smell copper water tanks on a skip 10 miles away just seconds after it has been dumped. ...

banned

Survival of the fittest, explained by Darwin.

Oranage2

How Adam Sandler is still making movies!

Laois_Man

It's funny....When I spotted this thread a few days ago, the first thought that occurred to me was, something that's always been a head scratcher.....What's the purpose of stripes on zebras.

Then today, completely by accident, I came across this where the mystery has arguably just been solved

http://www.vocativ.com/news/275163/zebra-stripes/?utm_campaign=CKMobile&utm_medium=cpc&utm_source=outbrain

I still have a head scratcher left tho. Why does boiling water freeze faster than room temperature water!

kneemos

Laois_Man wrote: »

It's funny....When I spotted this thread a few days ago, the first thought that occurred to me was, something that's always been a head scratcher.....What's the purpose of stripes on zebras.

Then today, completely by accident, I came across this where the mystery has arguably just been solved

http://www.vocativ.com/news/275163/zebra-stripes/?utm_campaign=CKMobile&utm_medium=cpc&utm_source=outbrain

I still have a head scratcher left tho. Why does boiling water freeze faster than room temperature water!

Hot water loses heat faster than cold water I think.

Laois_Man

kneemos wrote: »

Hot water loses heat faster than cold water I think.

I remain unsatisfied :P

kneemos

Laois_Man wrote: »

I remain unsatisfied :P

https://www.google.ie/url?q=https://medium.com/the-physics-arxiv-blog/why-hot-water-freezes-faster-than-cold-physicists-solve-the-mpemba-effect-d8a2f611e853%23.icv7eusp2&sa=U&ved=0ahUKEwjY0_6PwdLLAhVIpw4KHbp9CWgQFggkMAI&usg=AFQjCNEfKIhP36E9tr-t_78uUTss9DFYqg

Ray Palmer

After reading the first 4 pages it made me worry about how many people don't understand what has been explained and that people don't understand how we have words that aren't tangible things that can be measured. This does not mean there is no scientific explanation it means you aren't talking about a defined thing.

Science can't explain love.

Actually it can explain the physical reactions along with come up with an explanation to the evolution advantage of it. It is an explanation that many people won't accept.

Samaris

I considered several of the so-called mysteries from the first few pages, most of which I had some general idea of the science behind, and mostly wondered if science could ever explain why kneemos' threads.

I'll admit I didn't think too much on it when it got into black holes and string theory, not least since I had the sneaking suspicion that the people talking about them didn't understand them that much more than I do (i.e. I've heard of them and have probably read enough first paragraphs of magazine articles to be able to bull**** a one-sentence explanation of them

)

Edit: Rereading Roy Palmer's post there, yeah, you've got a solid point there, although there's an element of people misusing of the word "science". What does one MEAN (yes, I know I used it myself up there, but I was being sardonic) by "science explains". Science is ...information and theories gathered from a set of standardised, observable, repeatable methods - i.e. the scientific method. In general, "science" is used on definable things and processes, as you say. Intangible "things"; emotions, how and why people think, that sort of thing is much harder to quantify. Certain elements of the scientific method can be used to theorise about them, and gain support from what can be "measured" - brain processes for instance, observable evidence of evolutionarily helpful modes, but there's a reason they're called the "soft sciences". They're a bit more blurry.

whatawaster81

Who or what killed of the Neantherdals.

Alcoheda

12Phase wrote: »

Why cats always land on their feet.

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

There has been some tentative yet serious research into this very important field.

Here are the facts as we know them so far.

lol, look at the dude's face

Steve012

whatawaster81 wrote: »

Who or what killed of the Neantherdals.

Maybe we did, and they probably breed with modern day humans.

whatawaster81

Steve012 wrote: »

Maybe we did, and they probably breed with modern day humans.

Oh I've no doubt we interbred as up to 2% of our DNA is Neantherdal DNA.
It's funny how we thrived and they vanished. I've seen multiple theories from us wiping them out to the fact they could not harness fire so couldn't get the calories from food or avoid disease.

It's just scientists can't agree what exactly happened.

Steve012

whatawaster81 wrote: »

Oh I've no doubt we interbred as up to 2% of our DNA is Neantherdal DNA.
It's funny how we thrived and they vanished. I've seen multiple theories from us wiping them out to the fact they could not harness fire so couldn't get the calories from food or avoid disease.

It's just scientists can't agree what exactly happened.

With no offence intended , Dane's, Norwegians, North German's, eh..
I think they harnessed fire alright.

whatawaster81

Steve012 wrote: »

With no offence intended , Dane's, Norwegians, North German's, eh..
I think they harnessed fire alright.

As I am neither Dane, Norwegian nor North German no offence was taken.

deecom

Why can the pubs not open on Good Friday...

wurzlitzer

brevity wrote: »

What happens to the other sock.

Have you not seen monsters inc?

wurzlitzer

brevity wrote: »

What happens to the other sock.

Have you not seen monsters inc?

ScumLord

whatawaster81 wrote: »

Oh I've no doubt we interbred as up to 2% of our DNA is Neantherdal DNA.
It's funny how we thrived and they vanished. I've seen multiple theories from us wiping them out to the fact they could not harness fire so couldn't get the calories from food or avoid disease.

It's just scientists can't agree what exactly happened.

Neanderthals had fire, by many accounts they were at least as sophisticated as humans and had bigger brains. They're problem is they didn't trade or socialise outside of their own familiar group. Two groups of humans could come across each other and would probably have a meal together, do some trading, maybe swap some members and go about their merry way. If neanderthals were like most other animals on this planet when they came across another group of neanderthals they probably started fighting each other.

etoughguy

whatawaster81 wrote: »

Who or what killed of the Neantherdals.

They are still alive, a few of them were in Brussels yesterday

Maximus Alexander

Vinculus wrote: »

Was the big bang the first big bang or was there other big bangs before that big bang?

There is no 'before' the big bang. Time begins at the moment of the big bang, and just like you can't go South from the South pole, you can't go before the big bang.

EndaHonesty

ScumLord wrote: »

Neanderthals had fire, by many accounts they were at least as sophisticated as humans and had bigger brains. They're problem is they didn't trade or socialise outside of their own familiar group. Two groups of humans could come across each other and would probably have a meal together, do some trading, maybe swap some members and go about their merry way. If neanderthals were like most other animals on this planet when they came across another group of neanderthals they probably started fighting each other.

Lolz I think you've got it backwards, upside down and inside out.
You don't have to be an Anthropology Professor to see it's humans who have a need to fight with each other, not "animals".

ScumLord

EndaHonesty wrote: »

Lolz I think you've got it backwards, upside down and inside out.
You don't have to be an Anthropology Professor to see it's humans who have a need to fight with each other, not "animals".

If you compare humans to every other animal what stands out is that we don't fight nearly as often as other animals, when was the last time you got into a fight? We need to be inhibreated before there's any real danger of fighting for prowess. There's 20 million people living in London and getting along on a daily basis. It's hard to get two dogs to walk past each other on the street.

When we do fight it's on a massive level but outside of war there's very little violence in your average human community. War gives a totally skewed image of humans acceptance of violence. Outside of war we're even nice to the animal we kill and eat.

kneemos

Maximus Alexander wrote: »

There is no 'before' the big bang. Time begins at the moment of the big bang, and just like you can't go South from the South pole, you can't go before the big bang.

We don't even know if there was a big bang,never mind when time began.