we define but we have no explanation and any answer is as good as another?
2006-06-16 02:47:41 · 7 answers · asked by goring 6 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
gravity
2006-06-16 02:52:00 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
LOL ... that is what physics is all about ... admitting that there is much we still don't know. That is why we do something called "research". If physicists thought they knew everything would there still be research being done?
The sad part is your last statement because "any answer" just will not do. It shows your very poor understanding of how science works. Always remember .. in science ... proving something is cool but disproving something that someone else believes is even cooler. Science is very competitive in its way, if someone comes up with just "any answer" he is generally eaten like a kitten at a dog show.
2006-06-16 09:54:53 · answer #2 · answered by sam21462 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Scientists really don't prove anything. They come up with an explanation, and try to prove it is wrong. And as long as it agrees with all the results the theory predicts, and it cannot be proven wrong, the theory is accepted, until they discover a new fact that the theory can't explain.
And if two answers are as good as any other, then neither has any predictive value, so they are not scientific explanations.
2006-06-16 10:13:55 · answer #3 · answered by Triple M 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The biggest mysteries in physics AFAIK are entanglement (superliminal transfer of information between particles) and what was the universe like before the Big Bang/Inflaton Disruption, because it is so small, quantum and classical physics combine.
2006-06-16 13:57:36 · answer #4 · answered by David J 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Theoretical Physics is the "frontier of science". We have absolutely no idea what we will find or discover. Even Stephen Hawking has said that the universe is bigger than our wildest dreams, even for astro-physicists.
2006-06-16 14:25:52 · answer #5 · answered by trancevanbuuren 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why an electrons in excited states decides to decay when it does.
Gravity
Light
Dark Matter
Numerous mathematical maneuvers
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I wouldn't go so far as to say that any explanation is as good as any other, but these are a few things we don't....or can't....say we can definitively specify in so many words.
2006-06-16 10:02:18 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dark matter, or antimatter - but what mankind dos not understand about the universe in general could fill an infinite number of libraries.
2006-06-16 09:57:38 · answer #7 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋