• Question: What is your biggest unanswered scientific question?

    Asked by lilygrainger to Leisha, Anouk, Chris, Judith, Seyyed on 12 Jun 2012. This question was also asked by harriet1.
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      Chris Kettle answered on 12 Jun 2012:


      Another good question.

      Mine is- if energy can not be created nor destroyed then where did it come from in the first place?!?!? Surely it had to be created. The same withGod- what was there before Him?

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      Judith Sleeman answered on 12 Jun 2012:


      In my work: how does the nucleus manage to use all the right genes in all the right places at all the right times?

      More generally: how will the earth ‘die’ and will anything else replace it? A bit gloomy, sorry! As Chris says, great question.

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      Seyyed Shah answered on 12 Jun 2012:


      My biggest unanswered question is this: What is logic?

      When scientists do experiments, lets say, to look at what’s going on inside the cell, they often get results in the form of lots of numbers. How can a person look at a set of numbers, which no one has seen before (because the experiment is being done for the first time) and understand what they mean. Scientists often look at results for the first time, and they have never experienced looking at those particular results before. But they can always draw a conclusion using their ‘logic’. How does it work?

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