What We Don't Know
Wired Magazine is running a cover article this month on the really BIG questions -- 42 of them to be exact -- by John Hodgman, nerd in chief on The Daily Show With Jon Stewart. It's an easy pop-science read, good to fill the void of a perfectly boring day, without the loss of brain cells that usually accompany a dose of television. Here, to tickle your curiosity, are the questions I found of interest:
- Is time an illusion?
- How does a fertilized egg become human?
- Why do we sleep?
- How can observation affect the outcome of an experiment?
- How do entangled particles communicate?
- What is the universe made of?
- Is time travel possible?
- What happens to information in a black hole?
- How does the brain calculate movement?
- How does the brain produce consciousness?
- Is the universe actually made of information?
- Can mathematicians prove the Riemann hypothesis?
- Why do we die when we do?
- What causes gravity?
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