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What can science not explain?

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,159 ✭✭✭✭AndyBoBandy


    Science can't explain what a tracker mortgage is,
    Or how they get the figs into the fig rolls.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,771 ✭✭✭✭RobertKK


    Why there is something rather than nothing, as with life and the universe.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,763 ✭✭✭✭kneemos




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,672 ✭✭✭saabsaab


    The biggies for me are consciousness/self awareness and how this is possible that a section of matter can be aware of its existence and be examine itself and the rest of the universe? Some believe that a sufficient number of nerves/interconnected memory storage devices will develop consciousness with sufficient input. Why is the internet not self aware?

    Also what started the universe? What was there before? I know someone will say big bang but that is just a theory and does not explain what caused it if it is true?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 904 ✭✭✭somuj


    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

    The space between galaxies is expanding. Hense redshift


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 768 ✭✭✭SpaceSasqwatch


    Why Kneemos keeps starting these threads

    on the plus side he/she has stopped polluting the feedback forum


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,573 ✭✭✭pragmatic1


    endacl wrote: »
    Has been well explained.
    It's not well understood at all.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 24,461 ✭✭✭✭darkpagandeath


    People not understanding it ?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,573 ✭✭✭pragmatic1


    Innate conscience in human beings?
    Because it's beneficial to our species and we have big brains.


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,899 Mod ✭✭✭✭riffmongous


    somuj wrote: »
    The space between galaxies is expanding. Hense redshift
    So what's at the edge? :P


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  • Moderators, Music Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,734 Mod ✭✭✭✭Boom_Bap


    Dear Science,

    Can I Kick It?

    Regards,

    Boomer






    Dear Boomer,

    Yes You Can.

    Regards,

    Science



    That solves that conundrum.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 904 ✭✭✭somuj


    So what's at the edge? :P

    We dont know if there is an edge. Can only see some 14 odd billion light years away. Could be infinite space and galaxies beyond that.


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,899 Mod ✭✭✭✭riffmongous


    somuj wrote: »
    We dont know if there is an edge. Can only see some 14 odd billion light years away. Could be infinite space and galaxies beyond that.
    The infinity solution always strikes me as a copout, 'we cant say and we probably never will be able to.. lets say its infinite and then this problem goes away'. This crops up a lot in physics and astrophysics


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,794 ✭✭✭✭osarusan




  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 94,516 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    endacl wrote: »
    Originally Posted by Braonain View Post
    Gravity.
    Has been well explained.
    Gravity well :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 904 ✭✭✭somuj


    The infinity solution always strikes me as a copout, 'we cant say and we probably never will be able to.. lets say its infinite and then this problem goes away'. This crops up a lot in physics and astrophysics

    Its not a cop out. There is no answer because no one knows. Could be infinite. Could be an edge out there somewhere to a membrane where another universe begins. Could be that there is no universe and all of this is only a simulation.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,681 ✭✭✭JustTheOne


    We know something can't come from nothing.

    So how did everything end up existing if things can't come from nothing?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,813 ✭✭✭joe40


    In the beginning there was nothing, and then it exploded!!
    Terry pratchett joke, can't claim it as my own


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,039 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    Nothing won't stand up to scrutiny


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 731 ✭✭✭Lemsiper


    JustTheOne wrote: »
    We know something can't come from nothing.

    So how did everything end up existing if things can't come from nothing?

    What about that time with Messi against Villarreal?

    He picked the ball up around half way, beats numerous opponents an slots the ball home.

    He made something out of nothing.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 731 ✭✭✭Lemsiper


    brevity wrote: »
    What happens to the other sock.



  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,121 ✭✭✭ClovenHoof


    Consciousness. They are not even close.

    Dark Matter is just something they made up.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,339 ✭✭✭The One Doctor


    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.

    How do you know that? Maybe life is all the universe has craved since the big bang.


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 94,516 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Magnets.
    How do they work ?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 731 ✭✭✭Lemsiper


    How do they work ?

    Magnetism


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,766 ✭✭✭Bongalongherb


    Science still cannot explain exactly how the climate works in regards to its chaos theory, but they seem to think they know it inside out. Lazy computer models again, they need to go back and use the brain instead of inputting garbage in whilst receiving garbage out.


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 94,516 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight




  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 215 ✭✭ceecee14


    How can Salmon come in from the Atlantic Ocean and find its way miles up the tiny little stream it was born on..

    Also, how come we can make crazy things like USB Memory sticks, CDs, Spaceships that can make it to Mars, bit no cure for cancer?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,005 ✭✭✭Letree


    What came before the universe.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,766 ✭✭✭Bongalongherb


    Weed.


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