2006-08-05 19:08:57 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Other - Science
The UFT.
(UFT is a collective name for the theories that try to put Quantum Physics and General Relativity together - right now they don't talk to each other mathematically speaking)
You know how there are all those saying about each time you get a new answer it just raises more questions? How about the famous 'The larger the sphere of light, the larger the darkness that surrounds that light' ? Well it won't be true for the first time ever if we get a UFT - we will have hit a limit of knowledge.
So the UFT gets my vote - if we can solve that, then we will have taken a very large step in understanding the universe.
The down side is that it is so complex that we will need another Einstein to solve it.
2006-08-05 19:23:56 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Genetics
2006-08-06 02:30:33 · answer #2 · answered by Lutfor 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Viruses, are they living? They have DNA, but no other qualifications to be a living creature. It is hugely debated among scientists who have cam up with a hypothesis of no it is not living, but it has DNA. Viruses do not require food and water two of the basics of life, they get thier "life" from being parasitic, and eventually. Maybe there is a way to live without food and water, maybe our whole view of life is wrong, who knows
2006-08-06 02:19:27 · answer #3 · answered by 2b2gbi 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Astronomy
2006-08-06 07:52:20 · answer #4 · answered by rocknrod04 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For 'exciting' I'd have to say astronomy, because there is so much to be learned and so much happening.
For 'important' I'd have to say the studies of gravity, because it's the one major force we have NO clue about after hundreds of years.
2006-08-06 06:37:12 · answer #5 · answered by Luis 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it's a tie between nanotechnology and spelunking(finding the end to some of the worlds biggests caves and finding new ones).
2006-08-06 21:17:22 · answer #6 · answered by nebelfeen 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Biotech, because of its applications to human health. Next would have to be space exploration just because it helps us to understand our place in the cosmos.
2006-08-06 02:13:45 · answer #7 · answered by Eric G 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
medical research or deep into the ocean where they find some of those species of self illuminating or blind(no eyes at all) fish, etc.
2006-08-06 02:19:21 · answer #8 · answered by cameraman 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Anything involving searching in more detail other planets and solar systems.
2006-08-06 02:18:20 · answer #9 · answered by kenny_the_bomb 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Quantum Mechanics... Very cool stuff and very weird.
2006-08-06 02:12:21 · answer #10 · answered by John H 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋