Is this a stupid question: Are the laws of science the same throughout the universe? Is this another stupid question: Have we identified all the laws or have we missed some?
September 9 2010, Swinburne University of Technology
A team of astrophysicists based in Australia and England has uncovered evidence that the laws of physics are different in different parts of the universe. The report describes how one of the supposed fundamental constants of Nature appears not to be constant after all. Instead, this 'magic number' known as the fine-structure constant -- 'alpha' for short -- appears to vary throughout the universe. Find it HERE at Science Daily.
"The implications for our current understanding of science are profound. If the laws of physics turn out to be merely 'local by-laws', it might be that whilst our observable part of the universe favours the existence of life and human beings, other far more distant regions may exist where different laws preclude the formation of life, at least as we know it."
What about these simple things that science can't explain right now? These from Mental Floss HERE:
1. Why we cry 2. How to cure hiccups 3. How general anesthesia works 4. How tylenol (acetaminophen) kills pain 5. Why we sleep 6. Why only thunderstorms produce tornadoes 7. Why we itch 8. How we age 9. Why we laugh 10. How and why animals migrate back to their birthplaces 11. What dreams are for 12. How turbulence happens
Except for turbulence - one of the Millennium Problems known as the Navier-Stokes Equation, and a prize associated with it,
I doubt there are any prizes for figuring out how we laugh. But wait: The Ig Nobel Prizes have been handed out by actual Nobel laureates every year at Harvard University since 1991. They are awarded to scientific research that “makes you laugh, then makes you think”.
Here, have a laugh;
I was wondering why the ball kept getting bigger and bigger… And then it hit me.
These train models have a lot of parts - there could be thousands on each one.
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