Eleven Questions

I’m not sure if this has been blogged to death and I just haven’t noticed, but there is a superb article on the Discover site detailing The 11 Greatest Unanswered Questions of Physics.

  1. What is dark matter?
  2. What is dark energy?
  3. How were the heavy elements from iron to uranium made?
  4. Do neutrinos have mass?
  5. Where do ultrahigh-energy particles come from?
  6. Is a new theory of light and matter needed to explain what happens at very high energies and temperatures?
  7. Are there new states of matter at ultrahigh temperatures and densities?
  8. Are protons unstable?
  9. What is gravity?
  10. Are there additional dimensions?
  11. How did the universe begin?

And it’s wonderfully cute to read at the bottom of the article that these are all © 2002 The Walt Disney Company.

link via TwistyPants

There is one comment on this post

  1. avatar
    April 2nd, 2002 @ 7:46 pm
    hamhock

    gotta agree about the article. This magazine is the most interesting I have stumbled across since I found Omni as a kid.

Add to the discussion:

I'll never share your email address and it won't be published.

What Is This?

davidgagne.net is the personal weblog of me, David Vincent Gagne. I've been publishing here since 1999, which makes this one of the oldest continuously-updated websites on the Internet.

bartender.live

A few years ago I was trying to determine what cocktails I could make with the alcohol I had at home. I searched the App Store but couldn't find an app that would let me do that, so I built one.

Hemingway

You can read dozens of essays and articles and find hundreds of links to other sites with stories and information about Ernest Hemingway in The Hemingway Collection.