13 things that do not make sense

SHOOT: Life is a mystery; the greatest mystery never told.
Have a look at 'Dark Matter'. No one knows what it is. It's a fundamental hole in our understanding of the universe. The universe is not only more unfathomable than we imagine, but more unfathomable than we can imagine.

clipped from www.newscientist.com 1 The placebo effect We have a lot to learn about what is happening here, Benedetti says, but one thing is clear: the mind can affect the body's biochemistry. "The relationship between expectation and therapeutic outcome is a wonderful model to understand mind-body interaction," he says. 2 The horizon problem OUR universe appears to be unfathomably uniform. Look across space from one edge of the visible universe to the other, and you'll see that the microwave background radiation filling the cosmos is at the same temperature everywhere. That may not seem surprising until you consider that the two edges are nearly 28 billion light years apart and our universe is only 14 billion years old. 3 Ultra-energetic cosmic rays In theory, they can only have come from within our galaxy, avoiding an energy-sapping journey across the cosmos. However, astronomers can find no source for these cosmic rays in our galaxy. So what is going on? Read full article Continue reading page |1 |2 |3 |4 |5 |6