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Originally Posted by LikeAWillow
Which is why I didn't think it should be explained in the first place  Too much reasoning takes the wonder out of the world. |
Ooh, how I disagree!
I can't remember who said it, but someone once commented something along the lines of this:
"For every question science answers, another ten are created."
While this isn't strictly true (science, at its heart, is about unifying apparently disparate and/or conflicting theories while simultaneously explaining phenomena), it does highlight the fact that there always seems to be something we haven't thought of, have yet to explain, or have yet to discover. The deeper we delve, the more mysterious and beautiful the universe becomes.
Far from "fun-sucking", these quizzes seem such trivial distractions from the investigations of philosophers and scientists that I do wonder why anyone gives them more than a glance.
Things like this are surely more fascinating -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubble_Ultra_Deep_Field,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hu..._rez_edit1.jpg.
EDIT:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hu...eld_part_d.jpg
Basically, every dot in the two images (excepting the tiny blue and red dots, of course) which doesn't have four perpendicular rays coming off it is a galaxy. See if you can count them all!
Here's something else rather remarkable -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravita...g#Applications,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gr...ell-lins-4.jpg. Coincidentally, there was a question on my physics exam today which was related to this phenomenon (btw the exam didn't go that well - I nailed the Special Relativity section, but I barely attempted the Quantum Mechanics section...
).