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What can science not explain?

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


    Letree wrote:
    What came before the universe.


    Scientists haven't a clue, but there sure it was nothing.

    Joe Soap hasn't a clue but is sure it was God..


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,069 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    Loads of things.

    That's why it still exists.


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


    Just a singularity, but where did that come from ? and if it came from something else, where did this something else come from and so-forth.

    An example... where did this weed come from that I have ? well it came from a plant, where did the plant come from ? the field. Where did the field come from ? the earth. Where did the earth come from ? a combination of asteroids and space-rock focused in a space of gravity to form a robust round sphere. Where did the sphere come from ? already mentioned.

    Where did this singularity come from ? and maybe it came from many singularities imploding for ever.


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


    Where did this singularity come from ? and maybe it came from many singularities imploding for ever.


    Or, No one has a fcking clue!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,478 ✭✭✭eeguy


    There are 11 dimensions.

    We live in the 3rd dimension.

    In the 4th dimension you can see your past and future self.

    In the 5th dimension you can see your past and future self and every result of every decision you've ever made.

    There are 6 more dimensions above this.

    Mind bending stuff.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,478 ✭✭✭eeguy


    ceecee14 wrote: »
    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?

    There's dozens of cancers. Some are curable, some are preventable, some are treatable and some are incurable.


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


    eeguy wrote: »
    There are 11 dimensions.

    We live in the 3rd dimension.

    In the 4th dimension you can see your past and future self.

    In the 5th dimension you can see your past and future self and every result of every decision you've ever made.

    There are 6 more dimensions above this.

    Mind bending stuff.

    Let me just clarify this comment above...

    There is a 'theory' that 11 dimensions exist. Big difference than saying that they do exist without solid scientific hard proof ?.

    Even the most proficient scientists are stuck in quantum entanglement.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,478 ✭✭✭eeguy


    Let me just clarify this comment above...

    There is a 'theory' that 11 dimensions exist. Big difference than saying that they do exist without solid scientific hard proof ?.

    Meh... give them time.

    Also "theory" and "laws" often have the same importance depending on context.

    The main difference is only that a law is backed up by a simple mathematical formula.

    "A law tells you WHAT happens to something. It won't really be proven wrong. (An example is Newton's Law of Gravity; if something is dropped in a place with gravity, it falls.)

    A theory tells you WHY something happens to something. It is not really disputed, but it has the potential to be proven wrong. It's like a summary of the results of many, many tested hypotheses."

    Yahoo answers.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,555 ✭✭✭Roger Hassenforder


    Mesrine65 wrote: »
    How do birds migrate to & from the same area annually?

    With their f**king wings


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


    eeguy wrote:
    There are 6 more dimensions above this.


    Please enlighten me on all 12 dimensions.. I might not believe but I do find this kind of thing amusing


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,478 ✭✭✭eeguy


    ceecee14 wrote: »
    Please enlighten me on all 12 dimensions.. I might not believe but I do find this kind of thing amusing

    Here you go.

    https://youtu.be/JkxieS-6WuA


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


    eeguy wrote: »
    Meh... give them time.

    Also "theory" and "laws" often have the same importance depending on context.

    The main difference is only that a law is backed up by a simple mathematical formula.

    "A law tells you WHAT happens to something. It won't really be proven wrong. (An example is Newton's Law of Gravity; if something is dropped in a place with gravity, it falls.)

    A theory tells you WHY something happens to something. It is not really disputed, but it has the potential to be proven wrong. It's like a summary of the results of many, many tested hypotheses."

    Yahoo answers.

    It's still just a theory in regards to the human mind-thought... if I have a theory that there is a translucent civilisation out there that cannot be observed by the human species and its technology' does this exist in some way ? I can make theories and a scientist can make the math in regards to said theory and it will fit in some way, but it's just a theory.

    11 dimensions. Does a fish understand the dimension of up ? for all we know there could be 1 trillion dimensions, but we do need a bit more proof as to how and where these so-called 11 dimensions come from in our thought of theory.

    Philosophy and good healthy thinking brings up amazing things. Some-one once said that if you can think of it, then it exists. Everything we can think of can exist they say, so maybe there is 10 trillion dimensions around us now and interacting in some way now and again, anomalies as we call them might be another dimension interacting with ours.

    A dimension of our past even 1 minute ago could be interacting with us 1 minute later but we just don't see it with our limited peripheral vision on a frequency our brains cannot see or measure. Maybe the answer to everything is right in front of us, but we just don't have the tools in our brains to picture it. Maybe we are blind in an other way.

    Trippy stuff this is.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,478 ✭✭✭eeguy


    It's still just a theory in regards to the human mind-thought... if I have a theory that there is a translucent civilisation out there that cannot be observed by the human species and its technology' does this exist in some way ? I can make theories and a scientist can make the math in regards to said theory and it will fit in some way, but it's just a theory.

    11 dimensions. Does a fish understand the dimension of up ? for all we know there could be 1 trillion dimensions, but we do need a bit more proof as to how and where these so-called 11 dimensions come from in our thought of theory.

    Philosophy and good healthy thinking brings up amazing things. Some-one once said that if you can think of it, then it exists. Everything we can think of can exist they say, so maybe there is 10 trillion dimensions around us now and interacting in some way now and again, anomalies as we call them might be another dimension interacting with ours.

    A dimension of our past even 1 minute ago could be interacting with us 1 minute later but we just don't see it with our limited peripheral vision on a frequency our brains cannot see or measure. Maybe the answer to everything is right in front of us, but we just don't have the tools in our brains to picture it. Maybe we are blind in an other way.

    Trippy stuff this is.

    All this is true.

    If it can happen then it has happened , theoretically somewhere in some dimension.

    It is crazy stuff, and it's the stuff you have to be exposed to daily to actually understand it. I remember a scientist saying that it would be an eternal shame if the human brain was biologicaly incapable of comprehending the enormity and complexity of the multiverse.

    It opens up the debate that if anything can exist, then can some form of God exist.


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


    Most definitely interesting for sure, I ponder on it all the time, but it's complexity is mind-boggling. Beautiful though.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,001 ✭✭✭recylingbin


    Science can't explain how girls think fake tan looks good.


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


    Science can't explain how girls think fake tan looks good.

    I could never understand that one either. It makes these folk more bronze looking and old. Bad tanning from electro-lights while they should be getting their ass to the beach and putting the lotion into the basket.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,358 ✭✭✭Heckler


    Out of all the billlions and trillions of planets/ stars etc why they still bang on about the "Goldilocks" planet.

    Whos to say Alien species don't breathe sulphuric acid and **** radioactivity to stay alive ? Why is it we assume they have to be close to ourselves. Just because the laws of physics means something here maybe it doesnt mean **** somewhere else,

    I'd really like an answer to this one.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,770 ✭✭✭The Randy Riverbeast


    Heckler wrote: »
    Out of all the billlions and trillions of planets/ stars etc why they still bang on about the "Goldilocks" planet.

    Whos to say Alien species don't breathe sulphuric acid and **** radioactivity to stay alive ? Why is it we assume they have to be close to ourselves. Just because the laws of physics means something here maybe it doesnt mean **** somewhere else,

    I'd really like an answer to this one.

    They can't rule it out but we know what conditions are ok for life and what conditions will kill it. We know that life can exist on a planet like ours so they focus on planets like ours. Even on this planet animals have adapted fo certain conditions.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,292 ✭✭✭-=al=-


    Well, we understand what we're made up of here and what makes us tick, so finding something elsewhere similar to this little planet might warrant similar results to us. We're just an example of life and water is a good indicator of that spark of life.

    There was Methane-eating microbes found a few years ago that survived by producing and breathing its own oxygen.

    Methane breathing suplhuric acid pooping aliens?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,358 ✭✭✭Heckler


    But whos to say our conditions for life are the only ones ? Why is that assummd ?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,358 ✭✭✭Heckler


    I have my doubts if we were ever visited but I think its a huge arrogance to think out of all the vastness of the universe that we are the only intelligent life. The alternative to me is scary.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,850 ✭✭✭Depp


    Fucking magnets, how do they work?!


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


    eeguy wrote: »
    There are 11 dimensions.

    We live in the 3rd dimension.

    In the 4th dimension you can see your past and future self.

    In the 5th dimension you can see your past and future self and every result of every decision you've ever made.

    There are 6 more dimensions above this.

    Mind bending stuff.



    Ghosts are completely plausible then.

    Scientifically speaking.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,310 ✭✭✭Pkiernan


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

    banned


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,555 ✭✭✭Roger Hassenforder


    -=al=- wrote: »
    Well, we understand what we're made up of here and what makes us tick, so finding something elsewhere similar to this little planet might warrant similar results to us. We're just an example of life and water is a good indicator of that spark of life.

    There was Methane-eating microbes found a few years ago that survived by producing and breathing its own oxygen.

    Methane breathing suplhuric acid pooping aliens?

    Up until a few years ago it was assumed all food webs were based on light- primary production via photosynthesis was the first step.
    Then they found hydrothermal vents, where primary production is via chemosynthesis.
    There's a lot we don't know all right!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 851 ✭✭✭kimokanto


    Candie wrote:
    Murders/Illness/pestilence/pizza burn/papercuts: Satan


    Not really scientific input from me here but regarding pizza burn; eat pizza like Italians do, fold it over toppings side in & ate the fcuker- no scalding to the roof of the gob.


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,313 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    -=al=- wrote: »
    Well, we understand what we're made up of here and what makes us tick, so finding something elsewhere similar to this little planet might warrant similar results to us.
    And even on this planet where life did start it seems it did so only once. All life on earth from bacteria to redwoods are related. There are no "aliens" here. So until we find life elsewhere, if we find it, then it's at best measured conjecture as to how life kicks off, or what might be out there.

    Many worry about Artificial Intelligence. I worry far more about Organic Idiocy.



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


    Heckler wrote: »
    Out of all the billlions and trillions of planets/ stars etc why they still bang on about the "Goldilocks" planet.

    Whos to say Alien species don't breathe sulphuric acid and **** radioactivity to stay alive ? Why is it we assume they have to be close to ourselves. Just because the laws of physics means something here maybe it doesnt mean **** somewhere else,

    I'd really like an answer to this one.
    First we are pretty sure the same laws of physics apply to the observable universe. The nuclear reactors of Oklo provide hard evidence that lots of physical constants haven't changed in billions of years. And then there's our observations of the cosmos. Billions more years that don't need a time dependent change in the laws of physics.


    As to breathing, that's just simple chemistry. For an organism to do stuff, it needs energy and only chemical reactions with an energy difference can supply it. From across space ET could see that our planet has an oxygen rich atmosphere, and that's interesting because oxygen is very reactive* and most things that don't burn are already oxides. They'd also see methane in our atmosphere and that would be very interesting because methane and oxygen react so there shouldn't much methane unless it's being replaced.


    Only this week we sent a probe to Mars to look at methane levels, because it's an energetic compound.

    *about 3% of Global GDP is spent fighting corrosion ,pretty much all of our planet is covered by things that have completely reacted by oxygen , apart from a very thin veneer of life and it's remains.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,698 ✭✭✭Topper Harley


    Depp wrote: »
    Fucking magnets, how do they work?!

    Science has explained that. It's to do with the direction of the movement of electrons within them...or something. Science can explain it better than me.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,850 ✭✭✭Depp


    Science has explained that. It's to do with the direction of the movement of electrons within them...or something. Science can explain it better than me.

    I don't wanna talk to a scientist, Y'all motherfu*kers lying, and getting me pissed!


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