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  • Rated by ribcaged on Feb 23 2009, 8:28am

    13 things that do not make sense - space - 19 March 2005 - New Scientist! I dont even know what to say.

  • Rated by CJ10467 on Jan 10 2009, 2:03pm

    All the amazing pieces of wat makes our universe amazing. From the smallest individual to the largest group!

  • Rated by Ajihad on Dec 09 2007, 6:12pm

    13 intriguing questions that show that our profound knowledge of the universe is not so profound after all

  • Reviewed by BenitoTinto on Nov 25 2007, 2:52pm

    I would like to know....if the placebo effect works the way it says in the article then......we have an effective method for treating addiction. You simply switch the users drugs with saline. I seriously doubt that would work. Do we have any junkie volunteers in the audience?...........the Horizon effect. In the article they say "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." I will? An I going to need a ladder or something? Maybe a telescope? Hmm. The point is..........nice try explaining something that will only ever be a theory! I just love the audacity? arrogance? of human beings. We really think we are the pinnacle of creation. Damn! That's funny! We can't understand what motivates the guy next door, but we have this universe thing all figured out. I'm too tired to read the rest.

  • Rated by alice44 on Nov 16 2007, 3:33pm

    Some interesting things to think about. From the page: "This is the placebo effect: somehow, sometimes, a whole lot of nothing can be very powerful. Except it's not quite nothing. When Fabrizio Benedetti of the University of Turin in Italy carried out the above experiment, he added a final twist by adding naloxone, a drug that blocks the effects of morphine, to the saline. The shocking result? The pain-relieving power of saline solution disappeared. So what is going on? Doctors have known about the placebo effect for decades, and the naloxone result seems to show that the placebo effect is somehow biochemical."

  • Rated by amateur6 on Oct 17 2007, 10:39am

    nice stuff.

  • Rated by aRTy-nz on Oct 06 2007, 2:00am

    It is the things that are not understood in science that are clues to future theory and revision of present knowledge. The list has only been growing in recent years. New Scientist list 13 things that do not seem to make sense at present.

  • Rated by ruscara on Oct 05 2007, 12:29pm

    From the page: "9 Dark energy IT IS one of the most famous, and most embarrassing, problems in physics. In 1998, astronomers discovered that the universe is expanding at ever faster speeds. It's an effect still searching for a cause - until then, everyone thought the universe's expansion was slowing down after the big bang. "Theorists are still floundering around, looking for a sensible explanation," says cosmologist Katherine Freese of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. "We're all hoping that upcoming observations of supernovae, of clusters of galaxies and so on will give us more clues." One suggestion is that some property of empty space is responsible - cosmologists call it dark energy. But all attempts to pin it down have fallen woefully short. It's also possible that Einstein's theory of general relativity may need to be tweaked when applied to the very largest scales of the universe. "The field is still wide open," Freese says."