What are some things that science still doesn't have an answer for?

Question

Things like: why things disappear in the Bermuda Triangle. Please no religious arguments.

Answer 1

How big space is.... Its really hard tell how it just keeps on going... And is there another earth,place with living creatures?

Answer 2

Bermuda Triangle is pathetic. There is nothing special about it in terms of paranormal activity. That doesn't count at all.

* What started the Big Bang? (but there are many theories explaining this)

* Is there life on other planets? (Again, there is evidence to support the argument but we don't know for sure)

* How will the universe end? (ditto)

Answer 3

Oh, there are too many to list.  That is what I find wonderful about science.  For every answer, we only raise more questions.  In a hundred years time, we have stacked up our knowledge, jumping from Newtonian physics, to Einsteinian physics, to Quantum physics, and now such strange physics involved in quantum foam, dark energy, and superstrings.  Each jump has been a huge leap of knowledge, but every time we turn a corner something new pops up!

Ah, science.  That is the real joy of it.  We can keep on learning about the universe around us till the end of time.

We were given minds that are supremely well made for questioning things.  Lets use them!

Cheers!

Answer 4

Cure for cancer

Answer 5

The Burmuda triangle is not a scientific mystery.  

However, here are a few questions that are open:

1.  What is dark matter?

2.  What is dark energy?

3.  Is there only one universe?

4.  How did life on earth begin?

5.  How can gravity and quantum mechanics be reconciled?

6.  Is the universe infinite?

These questions do not imply that they are unanswerable, just that they have not been answered yet.

Answer 6

1. How does my washing machine turn a pants leg inside out?

2. Why does it happen unpredictably?

3. Sometimes it's only one leg, other  times both of them. Why?

Answer 7

Great question, and I don't share Duckie's enthusiasm for the limitless supply of questions science can provide us.  (Even though I'm sure he is in the majority.)

Not knowing just why you are asking this, I feel the need to break this down into two categories.  The first is about how much we know.  Now this, I would agree, keeps adding more and more opportunities for discovery.  The details of the universe extend way beyond what we have already discovered.  Technology may also have a great number of dramatic innovations in store for us.  

But for me, the really important aspect of this is what we *understand.*  How many questions about the general properties and interactions of the universe still remain?  It seems, over the past century, that many scientists have had to invent new things to wonder about.  But these explorations are yielding diminishing returns.  As for theoretical physics, we may have just about reached the limit of what the physical universe can puzzle us with.  We have discovered just about all there is to understand.  Notice that some of the fine examples of questions given by scottsda... are things we don't even know to be true.  Dark matter and dark energy may not exist at all, despite the claims of evidence.  They've played with string theory and M-theory and other universes and a bunch of other things that seem to have no relevance to the real world.  These new notions seem to be nothing but mathematical equations, they are virtually impossible to confirm, and they don't answer any questions.  And the deeper we probe into the quantum realm, the more obscure and insignificant the discoveries seem to become.

There just aren't that many questions left.  How life started?  That's a question of the first category.  Understanding the principles upon which abiogenesis is based, is a foundation we already have.  Compare the number of phenomena we are mystified about today to the number they were clueless about 200 or 300 years ago.

What I am saying is pure scientific heresy.  It will get many thumbs down from people who disagree with it, but I believe we've just about completed the puzzle.  Begin any question with "how" or "why" and I'll bet we know the answer to it. (By "why," I am not talking about philosophically, as related to some motive.)

For Ducky's sake, and many others, there will always be plenty to occupy our minds and give us something to look for.  It will be new technologies, or new discoveries of *things*, but I believe they will all fall into the realm of what we presently *understand*.

Consider one more thing.  The universe is not necessarily a bottomless pit of things to understand.  Many will point to experts of the past who said there wasn't much more to learn about this or that, and they have been embarrassingly wrong.  But consider that the universe might be limited in its complexity and that there *will* be a time when we are right in saying that.  Could that time be now?  I think it's just as arrogant to assume it isn't as to assume it is.  I think there's a possibility that we've hit the wall.

Edit: The biggest thing we don't understand is why the universe exists, or how it came to be.  Nobody can give a good answer as to how it *all* began. (Emphasis because M-theory cheaply sidesteps this question by supposing something before the Big Bang, thinking that explains how everything began.)  Unfortunately, I don't think we will ever know.  I don't believe time zero *can* be understood, no matter how advanced we get.

Edit: The Bermuda triangle is not an unsolved mystery.  It is a myth started by Charles Berlitz and perpetuated by media only interested in making money.

Also, I have a troll who has been using multiple IDs to give 3 or more thumbs down to 102 of my answers over the last four days.