The huge mysteries we still can’t explain

In this play of reflection, it's awe-inspiring to see however truthful overmuch is inactive beyond our technological knowing — from the large questions of the origins of the beingness and life, to the much mundane.  

Scientists person agelong been admirably striving successful the hugely important enactment of curing galore diseases, but person a agelong mode to go. They don’t cognize what causes aging astatine a cardinal level, oregon if it tin beryllium reversed. 

Scientists lone partially recognize what causes quality oregon consciousness. They person a constricted knowing of why people sleepwalk, speech successful their sleep, dream, often can’t retrieve dreams, oregon sometimes get déjà vu. They don’t afloat recognize however memories are stored, retrieved, altered and erased, and however representation works astatine a molecular level. 

Scientists person galore theories, but aren’t wholly definite wherefore humans hiccup, yawn, blush, laughter oregon outcry tears. For example, wherefore erstwhile we find thing comic bash we physically explicit it by rhythmically expelling air? It’s comic erstwhile you deliberation astir it.

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Though not detectable to the bare eye, acheronian substance is believed to comprise a monolithic magnitude of the universe.  (NASA)

We haven’t ascertained precisely wherefore placebos enactment adjacent erstwhile radical cognize they are getting a placebo. Or wherefore we get songs stuck successful our heads. And truthful overmuch more. 

On a larger, planetary scale, we don’t cognize what triggers the Earth’s magnetic tract to reverse — with the magnetic northbound and southbound poles switching places — astir each 250,000 years. (We cognize that swirling liquid robust successful our planet’s halfway generates magnetic fields, but we don’t recognize what gets the rod reversal started.) 

Some technological questions are genuinely immense and hard to fathom. Obviously, we don’t cognize if the beingness is infinite, oregon if we are unsocial here. We don’t cognize what happened earlier the Big Bang (which is compatible with spiritual instauration stories) oregon if determination are dimensions beyond abstraction and time.

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In fact, scientists are inactive figuring retired the bulk of the universe. They estimation that astir 70% of the full universe is "dark energy," a mysterious signifier of vigor that seems to beryllium making the universe’s enlargement accelerate, alternatively than dilatory down, implicit time. A repulsive unit that counteracts gravity, acheronian vigor is invisible and everywhere. "The quality of acheronian vigor is inactive not good understood," Britannica explains. 

Also mind-boggling, about 85% of each substance successful the beingness is "dark matter" — invisible particles that scientists person yet to identify. Dark substance is invisible too, arsenic it doesn’t emit, absorb, oregon bespeak light. We cognize it exists due to the fact that of the mode it influences things we can see: Stars orbit astir galaxies excessively accelerated for the disposable wide to support them from flying apart, truthful immoderate invisible wide is astatine work. One candidate particle is the tiny axion, a particle with ten-trillionth of the wide of an electron. 

We don’t cognize however the beingness volition end, but the astir wide supported mentation is "The Big Freeze," successful which it expands forever, with stars burning out, substance decaying, and the beingness becoming cold, acheronian and empty. Or it could illness oregon beryllium torn apart.

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One of the biggest unsolved questions successful theoretical physics is whether determination is simply a unified theory, sometimes called "A Theory of Everything," that combines quantum mechanics (think atoms, particles and electromagnetism) and wide relativity (Albert Einstein’s mentation of gravity). 

Suffice to accidental that the humble human, contempt each of our learning, has a batch to fig out. We person yet to spot what level of quality machines volition scope and however acold we tin spell successful creating caller life-forms. As overmuch arsenic we person explored our planet, scientists estimation that astir apt astir 6 cardinal to 10 cardinal taxon are undiscovered — far much taxon than discovered.

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Some technological questions are genuinely immense and hard to fathom. Obviously, we don’t cognize if the beingness is infinite, oregon if we are unsocial here. 

Not lone bash humans person galore unanswered technological questions, but, of course, subject can’t reply large questions beyond observable reality, specified as: Why is determination thing alternatively than nothing? Why does the beingness person its circumstantial carnal laws? Do we person escaped will? What is the meaning of life? 

Contemplating creation, the infinite and the invisible, vigor and mass, and our ain consciousness, inspires awe and humility.

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For some, the reply to the wonderment is worship. 

David says successful Psalm 19:1, NIV, "The heavens state the glory of God; the skies proclaim the enactment of his hands." And arsenic 1 Corinthians 13:12, KJV, puts it, "For present we spot done a glass, darkly; but past look to face: present I cognize successful part; but past shall I cognize adjacent arsenic besides I americium known."