Why are there so many unsolved problems in physics?
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From: Paul Stowe on 6 Feb 2010 13:08 On Feb 6, 9:17 am, BURT <macromi...(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > On Feb 6, 6:32 am, john <vega...(a)accesscomm.ca> wrote: > > > On Feb 6, 7:31 am, "Y.Porat" <y.y.po...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Feb 4, 4:06 am, Urion <blackman_...(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > > > > > Here is a list of unsolved problems in modern physics from wikipedia: > > > > >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unsolved_problems_in_physics > > > > > Why are so many problems? Don't you think there is something seriously > > > > wrong with our understanding of physics and the universe or are we > > > > just overcomplicating things? > > > > ----------------- > > > you are right!! > > > and that list you saw > > > is only a very partial list !! > > > just a few days a go > > > i found an inner contradiction in QM > > > Y.Porat > > > -------------------- > > > > Y.P > > > ---------------- > > > What happens when something gets > > sucked into a vortex? > > As it approaches the center, it goes > > faster and faster around it. > > But its own dimensions don't change, > > so it experiences greater acceleration > > as it gets closer to center. > > > For certain sizes of vortices, that acceleration > > must be great enough to make space > > turn sideways to get away from it. > > > john- Hide quoted text - > > > - Show quoted text - > > Look how young science is now and ask the same question in a million > years. > > Mitch Raemsch The human race will be extinct in much less time than that... Our current civilization will probably not last 500 more years, So, if we want answers we better get'em quickly...
From: BURT on 6 Feb 2010 13:24 On Feb 6, 10:08 am, Paul Stowe <theaether...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On Feb 6, 9:17 am, BURT <macromi...(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > > > > > > > On Feb 6, 6:32 am, john <vega...(a)accesscomm.ca> wrote: > > > > On Feb 6, 7:31 am, "Y.Porat" <y.y.po...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > On Feb 4, 4:06 am, Urion <blackman_...(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > > > > > > Here is a list of unsolved problems in modern physics from wikipedia: > > > > > >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unsolved_problems_in_physics > > > > > > Why are so many problems? Don't you think there is something seriously > > > > > wrong with our understanding of physics and the universe or are we > > > > > just overcomplicating things? > > > > > ----------------- > > > > you are right!! > > > > and that list you saw > > > > is only a very partial list !! > > > > just a few days a go > > > > i found an inner contradiction in QM > > > > Y.Porat > > > > -------------------- > > > > > Y.P > > > > ---------------- > > > > What happens when something gets > > > sucked into a vortex? > > > As it approaches the center, it goes > > > faster and faster around it. > > > But its own dimensions don't change, > > > so it experiences greater acceleration > > > as it gets closer to center. > > > > For certain sizes of vortices, that acceleration > > > must be great enough to make space > > > turn sideways to get away from it. > > > > john- Hide quoted text - > > > > - Show quoted text - > > > Look how young science is now and ask the same question in a million > > years. > > > Mitch Raemsch > > The human race will be extinct in much less time than that... Our > current civilization will probably not last 500 more years, > > So, if we want answers we better get'em quickly...- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - No body dies for ever. This is the promise in religion and it is the truth. Mitch Raemsch
From: Dr Ivan D. Reid on 6 Feb 2010 13:36 On Wed, 3 Feb 2010 18:06:19 -0800 (PST), Urion <blackman_two(a)yahoo.com> wrote in <4ce380aa-c08a-463f-a776-893db054237c(a)n33g2000yqb.googlegroups.com>: > Here is a list of unsolved problems in modern physics from wikipedia: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unsolved_problems_in_physics > Why are so many [unsolved] problems? Because there are far many more solved problems. Some of those on the list are due to be elucidated this year or next, too. > Don't you think there is something seriously > wrong with our understanding of physics and the universe or are we > just overcomplicating things? We're always overcomplicating things (e.g. epicycles) until someone has a breakthrough that clears up the overcomplications, and then they start building up again... Do you seriously think we'll ever know *everything* about the Universe? There's a reason things are called "theories" and not "facts"! -- Ivan Reid, School of Engineering & Design, _____________ CMS Collaboration, Brunel University. Ivan.Reid@[brunel.ac.uk|cern.ch] Room 40-1-B12, CERN KotPT -- "for stupidity above and beyond the call of duty".
From: glird on 7 Feb 2010 14:15 On Feb 6, 1:08 pm, Paul Stowe <theaether...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > Our current civilization will probably not last 500 more years, > So, if we want answers we better get 'em quickly... So ask some questions! glird
From: Uncle Ben on 7 Feb 2010 15:03
On Feb 3, 9:06 pm, Urion <blackman_...(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > Here is a list of unsolved problems in modern physics from wikipedia: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unsolved_problems_in_physics > > Why are so many problems? Don't you think there is something seriously > wrong with our understanding of physics and the universe or are we > just overcomplicating things? I deny the premise of your question! Physics has become so good that the only questions left involve phenomena that cannot even be observed easily because the distances are s0 great, or because thye number of particles is so great, or because they are just now being analyzed by physics instead of being thought beyond the scope of physics. Note that there are no problems in the list that invoolve every-day life. Most of what we see around us -- and much that we cannot -is now well understood by our physics. Physics is far more fully deveoloped than is any other hard science! Uncle Ben |