Wired is a magazine for new tech, a little Fashion like, but with some new insights and also inspired science upgrade. Just as in the magazine course the mentor showed us this volume has a feature about What We Don’t Know is an example. The following is this feature provokes:
How does life arise from nonlife? How does a fertilized egg become a human?
What is sleep and why do we do it?
What is the universe made of?
Why is time different from other dimensions? (Is time an illusion?)
What is earth’s core made of?
And some other questions like:
Why do placebos work?
Will forests slow global warming or speed it up?
What happens to information in a black hole?
What causes ice age?
How does the brain calculate movement?
Why do the poles reverse?
How does the brain produce consciousness? (That slab of meat in your skull – a 3-pound walnut of wetware – somehow puts the you in you.)
How doth human language evolve?
Why can’t we predict the weather?
Why don’t we understand turbulence?
Is the universe actually made of information?
Why do some diseases turn into pandemics?
Can mathematicians prove the Riemann hypothesis? (Bagua: In the early 1900s, German mathematician David Hilbert said that if he awakened after 1000 years of sleep, the first question he’d ask would be: has the Riemann hypothesis been proven?)
Why do we die when we do?
What causes gravity?
Why can’t we regrow body parts?
How do you think about all these questions? Isn’t it interesting and challenging? If you get even a slim answer, the Nobel would knock your door. Maybe it’s the answers to big questions that will redraw our vision of the world, elevate us in it, or even erase us. And that is why, despite what they tell you, being curious is the bravest human act, aside from skydiving.
Keep your eyes open, and be curious. Which is more important: nature or nurture? We have the similar saying that nurture for life, but not life for nurture, maybe we can say nurture for nature, and nurture is also part of nature. Or, why we still have big questions?
comfused........ nature.....nurture......
ReplyDelete呵呵，时刻怀着好奇和疑问的心态面对身边的环境和事物，这是一个研究人员的优秀素质！日复一日，彼成大器！
ReplyDeleteI'm pessimistic towards some of these questions. Human are good at creating things, but not so good at understanding things that create them. Usually, we just need an explanation, not an answer.
ReplyDeleteto Bohr, good comments, not so pessimistic, good explanation would help us close to an answer. Sometimes we lost when we got so-called answer.
ReplyDeleteTo tingting, nurture maybe can be interpreted as food for life?
To XB, curiosity makes a meaningful life in a nosense world. thanks for support.
it's better to try to find answers than having no actions. At least we tried. That's the key.
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