Is there any mystery left in science?

Question

Now, I know there are questions that we don't have the processing power to answer just yet, like what's inside a quark, and beyond a black hole, and why does the universe expand when laws of gravity state that it should actually contract because of the mass at the center, and what's in all that ocean we haven't looked at yet. Those are some pretty cool mysteries, but are there any more readily available? Like the Bermuda Triangle, but more tangible and less mythic... for example, I heard a while back that scientists are still baffled by the hive mind of ants, that it just doesn't mix with what science says and they can't figure it out. I have no idea where I read that, but I just went on wikipedia and it waves all the mystery away, its pheromones duh.

5 stars to whoever makes me say hmmmmm

Answer 1

what was before the anomaly ?

what is the land speed for a swallow?

Answer 2

why is it that human beings are the only know species on earth (know to us) that are capable of sentient thought. where as all other animals on the planet share similar genetic markers and traits, and are all evolved from the same foundation in life, think about how you would feel if an animal such as a dog thought like us but we ourselfs were just to blinded by our own state of concesness that we arnt able to acknowledge the possibility that other creatures have/are gaining the ability to learn similarly to ourselfs. and if you think about it in reverse, animals learn in a very basic way, such as if an animal touches an electric fence it knows not to touch it again because it would get shocked. human learning is not much different, we still are restricted to learning many things through trial and error, we are alittle bit better because we have proper teacher, but even still, if you think on a large scale how much more complex are we compared to any other life form here on earth? granted our technology makes us a force unmatched and i doubt any other on earth will match us for it, but we are still primitive beings, scientists could work more closly with figuring out the basic ideas of sentient thought and working it out (im sure they have already and id probably find a link, but sorry to lazy right now). like chimps have a strong social structure and many social and advanced tool using abilities that we as humans once were at ourselfs (if you believe in evolution). so through our own possible evolutionary history can you decide that at one point if we didnt directly interfear to greatly (which is unlikly) or even if we did that chimps at least would become the same state that we are in now, it would take a long time and at that point one would hope that we ourselfs would evolve abit further mentally. but its an interesting thought regardless.

sorry this probably isnt anything like what you wanted, and its the only subject that came to mind sorry. normally i have many more about the mystery's of modern science that are more directly relevent to your question, my statement is quite abit off from your question and im sorry for that, but its all i could think of at 6 in the morning :P (havent slept yet :D)

anyways good luck with your scientific understanding of the world.

Answer 3

Why mass generates gravity.

Answer 4

The workings of your brain has baffled scientists for years

Answer 5

> "Is there any mystery left in science?"

Oh, absolutely. Lots of it.

It is true that a lot of scientific research is more "focussed" and less "big picture" - but there is plenty of mystery there.

> "why does the universe expand when laws of gravity state that it should actually contract because of the mass at the center"

You have this the wrong way round ;-)

The reason that physicists hypothesise the existance of "Dark Matter" (estimated to comprise 90% of all matter in the universe) is because the universe isn't expanding quickly enough. So there must be some gravitational force slowing it - but whatever is providing this force is invisible to normal detection methods.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_matter

And the universe doesn't actually have a "centre" as such.

> "scientists are still baffled by the hive mind of ants"

Sort of - this is called "Emergence" (how a few, simple rules can add-up to amazingly complex behaviour)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergence

The principles behind it are quite well understood - but the phenomenon itself is related to complexity and chaos theory, so is very difficult to actually model or dissect. The construction of our "minds" by the interactions of simple nerve cells is another example of this emergence.

In 2005, the magazine "Science" had its 125th anniversary, and it produced a special edition on the 1st of July, in which it explored the "Top125" remaining mysteries in science:

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/vol309...

I don't know if you can access it - but it's worth a read!

Answer 6

There is plenty of mystery left. The human body is the biggest one of all. Read up on the processes of what the human body does and you will be amazed. It is fascinating!

As for more mystery than that, your imagination is the limit. anything and everything has a little mystery in it.

Answer 7

Do alens exist?

What happens when you die? Do you go to another Era or travel to another galxy?

When the earth ends how will humans look as evolution takes place?