• Question: What do you think is yet to be discovered?

    Asked by to Edward, Ian, Mathew, Naomi, sakshisharda on 23 Jun 2014. This question was also asked by .
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      Sakshi Sharda answered on 23 Jun 2014:

      Hi frankieoldham1

      There is lots to be found, we hardly know anything yet!! right from how we are made the way we are (human mind and body is still quite a mystery) to is there any life on another planet? Scientists are on these questions, but there is a long way to go!

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      Ian Stephenson answered on 23 Jun 2014:

      You sound like a some of the project managers I’ve worked for…

      If i knew what the next discovery was, then I’d just write it down, and tell everyone about it. It’s called research because we have no idea whats out there.

      The Royal Society published a “state of the art” report at the end of the 19th Centre (1900ish) which basically said pretty much everything has been discovered. Physics is more or less a solved problem. Just a few loose ends to figure out, and we’re finished.

      They published a list of 10 minor “loose ends” that needed to be figured out, and said it should only take a year or too… One of those loose ends turned into the theory of Relativity, another one turned out to lead to the discovery of Quantum Mechanics!

      I don’t know what we’re about to discover, but I know that just when you think you’re done, you open an insignificant door, and find there’s a whole city behind it.

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      Naomi Osborne answered on 23 Jun 2014:

      We know very little about most things….how our brain works….what’s beyond our solar system…..Alzheimer’s disease…..the list is endless.

      A good example of how little we know is the discovery of the bacteria in our environment – new species are being discovered all the time and it’s estimated we’ve discovered as little as 1%!

      Another is the atom – we thought the atom was the smallest thing, then protons and neutrons, then quarks – maybe something smaller than a quark is yet to be discovered!

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