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5 of the biggest unsolved mysteries in physics
Yahoo ^ | 1/31/12 | Tecca - Today in Tech

Posted on 01/31/2012 2:06:57 PM PST by NormsRevenge

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To: JimRed

As long as you don’t mind throwing away your computer, cell phone, television, microwave, ...


61 posted on 02/02/2012 11:17:05 PM PST by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: Billthedrill

“The Thermos.”

Yeah, I mean, how does it know?


62 posted on 02/02/2012 11:22:53 PM PST by decal (I'm not rude, I don't suffer fools is all.)
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To: JimRed

“The Higgs boson is a hypothetical particle...”

Well, electrons have their pal the positron so I see no reason why there shouldn’t be an equivalent particle to the boson.

I propose we call this particle “the boson’s mate”.


63 posted on 02/02/2012 11:54:10 PM PST by Nik Naym (It's not my fault... I have compulsive smartass disorder.)
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To: Paradox
Because they don't find all the answers they are looking for there.

Because they need more faith. With faith and honesty they will find it. The Bible is amazing beyond our possibility to understand all it reveals.

64 posted on 02/03/2012 12:17:50 AM PST by Bellflower (The LORD is Holy, separated from all sin, perfect, righteous, high and lifted up.)
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To: <1/1,000,000th%
As long as you don’t mind throwing away your computer, cell phone, television, microwave, ...

But, those are not hypothetical!

Isn't it a shame how the misbehavior of a few "scientists" makes guys like me distrust all of them?

65 posted on 02/03/2012 6:54:10 AM PST by JimRed (Excising a cancer before it kills us waters the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS, NOW AND FOREVER!)
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To: Bellflower

Not really, but we’ll just disagree.


66 posted on 02/03/2012 7:58:08 AM PST by Paradox (I want Obama defeated. Period.)
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To: NormsRevenge
Here's my favorite puzzle:

A black hole is something so dense and massive that nothing can get out of it. No matter and no information can pass outward through its event horizon.

The big bang theory posits that at the instant of its beginning, the universe expanded from an infinitely-dense point. This starting point was more massive and dense than any black hole. Yet, here we are.

67 posted on 02/03/2012 8:10:44 AM PST by PapaBear3625 (I'd agree with you, but then we would both be wrong.)
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To: Billthedrill
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy reference. 42 is the answer to the question about life, the universe, and everything. You go volumes before they finally find out what the question was.

That turned out to be "What is eight times seven?" ;-)

Unfortunately, eight times seven is 56.

68 posted on 02/03/2012 8:13:03 AM PST by Mycroft Holmes (Returned for regrooving...)
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Unfortunately, eight times seven is 56.

Yes, it is. that was the point of Adams' joke.

69 posted on 02/03/2012 9:39:38 AM PST by Billthedrill
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To: JimRed

Agreed.


70 posted on 02/03/2012 10:45:09 PM PST by <1/1,000,000th%
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