September 7th, 2009 Comments Off on 13 more things that don’t make sense
13 more things that don’t make sense |
Strive as we might to make sense of the world, there are mysteries that still confound us.
Michael Brooks presents thirteen of the most perplexing. Cracking any one of them could yield profound truths.
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Radiation left from the big bang is still glowing in the sky – in a mysterious and controversial pattern
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Something unseeable and far bigger than anything in the known universe is hauling a group of galaxies towards it at inexplicable speed
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Tens of millions of years ago, the average temperature at the poles was 15 or 20 °C. Now let’s talk about climate change
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Space probes using Earth’s gravity to get a slingshot speed boost are moving faster than they should. Call in dark matter
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The fusion of two distinct evolutionary lines is not supposed to work – but the seas are teeming with chimeras that prove it can
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