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It often feels like there aren't many mysteries left in nature, so it's great to see scientists react with childlike excitement about the prospect of something
by jamestimmins 4y ago
It often feels like there aren't many mysteries left in nature, so it's great to see scientists react with childlike excitement about the prospect of something new and unexplained.
- swayvil 4y agoCheck out meditation. It could be called a study of seeing. Given one way of seeing, certain models and conclusions can be drawn. But change the seeing and the models cease to hold. And then change it again. And again. We have a couple of methods for messing with that. A whole seeing-cultivation program. Lots of good mystery there.
- kadoban 4y agoThe deep ocean is a great place to look for such mysteries too, we have such a limited view of it, and it's _such_ an alien place in a lot of ways.
- marginalia_nu 4y agoWell all the old mysteries aren't really moving forward very much so a new mystery is a lot more exciting. The odds of solving a mystery is most likely inversely proportional to how many people who have attempted to solve it before. There's still a lot we don't know, though. There are entire fields which are, by their very nature, limited in how much we can learn. Archeology and astronomy are two. Like what's up with the Phaistos Disc?
- michaelsbradley 4y agoI never heard of The Phaistos Disc previously. Very clearly it’s another example of someone making a record of the weird lightshows in the sky that ancient peoples witnessed when enough energy was flowing through the local plasma environment to cause it to go from dark mode to glow mode.