Is there anything scientists these days DONT know?

Question

seems like theres an explanation to everything scientific

Answer 1

I haven't heard that scientists are hanging up "Mission Accomplished" signs, selling off the lab equipment, and sending back their grant money, so it's safe to assume there are still a few unanswered questions.

For example, in cosmology, they're trying to figure out what dark matter and dark energy are. Physicists are looking for the Higgs boson and a quantum explanation of gravity. Biologists have mapped a few genomes, but they know very little about what some of the genes do, or how their expression is controlled.

On the surface, it may seem as though scientists have figured everything out, but that's only because we have at least the beginning of an explanation for all the obvious questions. But one interesting result of all this science is that we are learning that certain things are simply unknowable. For example, thanks to chaos theory, we can not only complain about how often the weatherman is wrong, we can scientifically demonstrate that over the long term, his accuracy becomes no better than random guessing.

Answer 2

Sorry, but the questions are what keep scientists going. Knowing is not satisfying, unless it generates more questions.

Answer 3

There's still plenty left they don't know, but they're discovering more every day.

Answer 4

what did they know in the first place

Answer 5

The body of knowledge in the universe is effectively infinite. The knowledge of science is finite. Therefore there is more that we do not know than we do know.

  What science doesn't know:

   Is NP-Complete in P space? (Computer Science)

   What is the cure for <insert disease here>?

   Do wormholes exists?

   What does this button do?

Answer 6

they dont know how something came out of nothing

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Answer 7

Actually there's plenty they don't know. Turbulent flow is an example

http://turb.seas.ucla.edu/~jkim/sciam/tu...

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