is there a question which does not have answer ?

Answer 1

No. every question under the sun has an answer. The thing is that many of the answers are not answers we humans will ever know. Many of the answers are out of the human mind range and trying to understand them would be like a blind man trying to understand what "green" is. One of those questions is "why the world was created?" no matter how much we try we would never be able to answer because it is out of our mind range. But we could be content not knowing everything, like maimonedes said: "the greatest wisdom is to understand that you don't understand".

Answer 2

There is an orchestral work by Charles Ives entitled "The Unanswered Question" written circa 1906-1908 and revised in 1930-35. I like the work very much although it does not appeal to many people because of the tone clusters and polytonal dissonance. Ives' tendency to experimentation and his uncompromising use of dissonance won him few fans during his own lifetime. Ives was fond of saying that pretty music was for pretty ears, and he had no regrets that his music was not considered "pretty". Not until 1939, twenty years after he stopped composing, did the American public become aware of his music. Acceptance came much later. Europeans, however, were very curious about Ives. http://www.malaspina.org/home.asp?topic=./search/details&lastpage=./search/results&ID=817

The Unanswered Question was almost certainly influenced by the New England transcendentalist writers Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. It was written for the highly unusual combination of trumpet, four flutes, and string quartet. The strings play very slow, chorale-like music throughout the piece, and represent eternal silence of the Druids, who "know, see, and hear nothing". Over this indifferent universal background, the lone trumpet repeatedly poses a question , the perennial question of existence which is a short 6 note motif. Except for the last iteration, the flutes mockingly answer the trumpet with a a shrill outburst. Then the trumpet repeats the question. The flutes, despite all their sound and fury, get nowhere with the different answers which become increasingly more dissonant. each time. At the final iteration of the trumpet question, the flutes remain silent and the strings fade away. http://www.wikiverse.org/charles-ives

You can here samples at: http://www.wwnorton.com/classical/covers/60203.htm
http://www.kunstderfuge.com/_/ives_unanswered_question_%28c%29barker.mid
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000003FA7/102-6974095-2740127?v=glance&n=5174

The program encompasses a philosophical idea that Ives would address incomparably in his music and in his writings: in contemplating the sublime mystery of creation, a question can be better than an answer1. Thus, the piece is both conceptually and musically sophisticated.
http://www.musicweb.uk.net/Ives/WK_Unanswered_Question.htm
http://www.wikiverse.org/charles-ives

Ives used a variety of titles for this work including:
"Largo to Presto: The Unanswered Question: A Cosmic Landscape"
"A Contemplation of a Serious Matter"
"The Unanswered Perennial Question"
http://www.musicweb-international.com/Ives/WK_Unanswered_Question.htm

Answer 3

Where is the universe?

It's one that's stumped me, anyway! I know where the earth is, it's in the solar sytem. I know where that is, it's in the milky way galazy. I know where that is - it's in the universe, but where the hell is the universe?

By the way, a paradox is not a question without an answer - it's something contradictory (so a question with two completely different answers is a paradox). The OED defines a paradox as:

paradox

• noun 1 a seemingly absurd or self-contradictory statement or proposition that may in fact be true. 2 a person or thing that combines contradictory features or qualities.

I thought 42 was the answer to the meaning of life?

Oh, and if all questions can be answered in some manor, I want a big one on a hill :-)

Answer 4

No. Whether it is an opinion or a fact, all questions can be answered in some manor. Now if your question was "Is there a question that doesn't have a right answer?", then I would say that the answer could be yes since this would then imply that an opinion could not be used.

Answer 5

There are a lot of questions that don't have answers. Many of them have theories, which we believe to be the best explanation. Look at the "Big Bang." How do we really know that is what happened? I mean, for years people thought the world was flat and now the believe it is round.

Answer 6

No. There can be an answer to every question, but not necessarily a correct answer because some questions no one knows the answers to. A very popular answer is "I don't know" which usually works for most complicated questions. ;)

Answer 7

What was the state of the universe at t=0

Answer 8

Is there an answer that does not have a question?

Answer 9

that's odd. because every question has an answer. it's really impossible to say that such questions can't be answered because it's like saying you exist without a purpose. if ever there is a question that can't be answered, what's the purpose of existence then? it's like, we know the answer, we just have to wait for the right moment of answering it.

Answer 10

welll yeah alot of them to.... some there can't be actual correct answers to just opinions.
Or in my case I keep posting this one question and NO one not even ONE person has answered it not even the first time it was posted! I don't know why tho. It's catagorized correctly too. Its about a song so its in music! but still no one answered it! Why.... i hope that answers your question. But no one answered mine. tear tear. lol