What is the greatest/mysterious phenomenon?

[RJC]

Out of everything in the universe what do you think is the greatest/most mysterious phenomenon (concept, object, thought, process, animal, etc.)? It can be as simple as a microwave heating your food, to a star exploding/imploding into a supernova. I personally think the most mysterious things are space and time... what do you guys think?

 

[Mic_128]

The growth of a human being from 2 cells. I find that amazing really.

 

[Legomaxx]

I find how the brain functions to be interesting to say the least. I am learning about it in Psychology class and the amount of functions the brain can cover is amazing for just a wrinkly-looking lump in your skull. It makes me realize that as far as we have come with technology, the human body is still more advance than any form of technology and it has been that way since we have existed.

 

[typh]

Black holes, period. The fact that something could collapse into one of those babies just astounds me.

 

[RJC]

Yeah, anything to do with quantum physics is extraordinary... By taking psychology, I've also realized the amount of amazing things our brain can do; it's extremely complicated and fragile!

 

[Marcel]

my friend who balanced a chair on its hind legs for thirty minutes

 

[_milktea]

Hm. I'd probably have to go with emotion and how it unravels itself differently with each individual person.

Mental disorders are pretty intriguing too.

 

[M3ca]

space and time is amazing. but the ability to think is even more amazing to me.

Mental disorders are pretty intriguing too.

i have a mental disorder to some extent. XD

 

[XXII]

I think the way the brain works, like how we can see letters with our eyes which then are viewed by our brain which process them and comprehends them as words which can express ideas and concepts.

Also the human body...with how the heart can take the blood that is already used, then recycle it and pump it through our body again as a continuous cycle.

 

[Resting_Fox]

Dark Energy. And the idea of a perpetually self regenerating universe.

Also, those little swirls in marbles. How do they DO that?!

 

[supermariopro101]

The fact that dog saliva is cleaner than human saliva even though they lick their butts. Also who could of thought of calculus.

 

[ZMan]

The fact that my brother can sleep for over 3 days. It amazes me.

Also space and the wonders it holds.

 

[RJC]

Yeah, it seems that we can't imagine the universe without space or time; it's extremely hard (maybe impossible) to picture a spaceless or timeless universe...

 

[Maq]

i spontaneously combusted one time. it was weird...

 

[McFox]

How about Paris Hilton becoming famous? Doesn't anyone else find that incredibly unlikely? Her only talent is being skinny and ugly at the same time.

 

[M3ca]

^ lol @ paris

and saying "that's hot"



btw i can't even picture a 4D object. how is it possible to picture a timeless universe ><

 

[lceman]

I find love to be the greates phenomenon..... so much happiness can lead to misery and depression in a matter of days and vice versa. Stone Henge is a phenomenon as well..........

 

[Uncle Meat]

The creation of the universe interests me most, as it leads to all other phenomena. Plus it's just really ****ed up!

 

[GaNoNdOrFgUrL]

something going at the speed of light......what would happen? would u burn up due to friction? would u go through time? or would u be the first person to literally run around the world?

 

[Supreme Pie Ninja]

Being in the state that mass does not slow you at all, meaning that you are going infinately fast, being everywhere at once. It boggles my mind! (warp 10 in Trek talk )

 

[RJC]

Light is incredible.. it's weird how "light" sets the limit for velocity in the universe, and not gravity or sound..

btw i can't even picture a 4D object. how is it possible to picture a timeless universe ><

and in quantum physics (string theory to be more precise) the universe has 11 dimensions

 

[Resting_Fox]

and in quantum physics (string theory to be more precise) the universe has 11 dimensions

But string theory is all technically just mathematical conjecture with no scientific support, because all the things theorized in it cannot be tested by experiment. Basically string theory is just Mathematicians' way of perpetuating their status quo, their way of keeping students busy, and their way of seeming like they're still useful to society. And the fact that it catches on like a religion in which the people who most believe [ i.e. the students and teachers] are the people most deceived-- THAT, my friends, is phenomenal.

Light is incredible.. it's weird how "light" sets the limit for velocity in the universe, and not gravity or sound..

Well, my physics teacher, although she was a total flake, said that scientists broke the speed of light by accelerating photons in some environment which was conveniently unable to be reproduced, and for a moment I believed her. I wanted to believe her. But now I think she might have been lying.
And there's no logical reason for sound to set the universal speed limit, since sound is just vibration.

However, the speed of gravity is a perplexing idea. Since matter has never been created, the speed of gravity is unknown, and it may very well be infinite, instantly taking effect when matter is introduced into space [like the speed of darkness]. But if we could convert energy into matter as E=mc^2 declares possible...we might be able to discover the speed of gravity.

 

[RJC]

First of all, string theory is just a proposal to explain the universe; that's all.. don't take it as a concrete science, because it really isn't. Gravity, on the other hand, is very strange. In the next decade, particle accelerators are going to be able to see if there is a messenger-particle of gravity (the graviton); this may provide scientists with evidence proving or disproving certain aspects of the string theory (and other theories as well).

About sound-- I kinda meant it like this: "why is light set the limit on velocity? How come the universe didn't 'select' sound as the limit?"

 

[Cyphus]

why people sell themselves short on Ebay. i just don't get how ur going to sell me your 140 dollar text book for 20. Its amazing.


aw ****....my 1,000 post! *masterbates*

 

[Acea]

Life in general

P.S Way to go Cyphus. *plays Vonage toon*

 

[ElMagnifico]

It has to be the universe, I mean how was it created? I cant understand how something is infinitely big.

 

[Acea]

It bogles the mind @_@

 

[Crimson King]

The greatest phenomenon to me is creation. Not life or the universe but how human beings can create ideas, abstract ideas, into something tangible. Take the process in creating music. The end result is always so fulfilling. I love to listen to my songs just to feel the emotion I felt when I wrote.

Same goes for stories and such.

 

[Drab Emordnilap]

btw i can't even picture a 4D object.

 

[M3ca]

Thanks?!?!

somehow it hurts my brain when i stare at it too long. XD

 

[Crimson King]

How is that 4D? All I can see is Length, Width, and Height.

 

[Drab Emordnilap]

How is that 4D? All I can see is Length, Width, and Height.

Of course that's all you can see. Those are the only dimentions you live in, so those are the only ones you can percieve.

In actuality, that isn't really a four-dimentional object; it's just a three-dimentional representation of one. After all, we can only percieve up, down, left, right, forward, and back. We can't see ana or kata.

 

[Gate Everest]

I've always been really interested in religions throughout history and present day.

And love... emotion in general. Hm, a lot of human attributes, actually. Creativity, the sense of justice, competitiveness.

While there are physical phenomena that amaze me, humans and their ideas are more 'my thing'.

 

[Philly-Fresh]

I have to say UFO's because they are one thing that we may never really understand.

 

[Bailey]

I would have to say this is the most amazing thing I've every seen it makes you feel happy a little bit.

 

[ZMan]

That's very interseting. It looks like an eye.

 

[CaptainKnight]

About sound-- I kinda meant it like this: "why is light set the limit on velocity? How come the universe didn't 'select' sound as the limit?"

Light has a velocity through a vacuum. That would logically be lights maximum velocity. But sound has no velocity in a vacuum (sound can't exist without particles to transmit it) and so sound would be a very bad 'standard speed' as it has no maximum.

That and sound is tranmitted by moving particles that have mass and therefore drag, while light is so infinitesimal that it is conidered to have no mass and as such capable of much greater speeds.


And my personally favourite would have to be the Aurora Borealis and Aurora Australis. That fact that something that beautful was created by a fluke of nature is astounding.

 

[Bailey]

My Pic is called God's Eye it happens once evry 3000 years so admire it now it was a pic taken from NASA

 

[Blazey]

....... No, it doesn't. It's the Helix nebula. It's always like that. =/

One of the things I still find amazing is digital sound. I'm not yet able to understand how 1's and 0's can bring you a sound so complicated like Jimmy Page's Heartbreaker guitar riff. I'm sure it's really simple, it's just something I can't currently get my head around.

 

[Crimson King]

Digital sound isn't the same thing as guitar effects you know?

Guitar effects are soundboard and hardware based where as "1s and 0s" are software base. If you are interested, I can show you schematics on pedals, they are quite cool.