10 Amazing Mysteries Science Cannot Explain
You don’t know everything you don’t know.
If you haven’t accepted that by now, by the time you finish this video... you will.
Somethings just are; we’re not sure how they got here, what created them, or what
purpose they serve.
They’re origins – they’re mysteries — never solved.
Maybe that’s alright.
It’s okay to leave a stone unturned or a door unopened.
So sit back, don’t ask, and prepare to have your mind blown by 10 Amazing Mysteries Science
Cannot Explain.
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What’s Right is What’s Left
While no exact number is known, scientific estimates put the amount of right-handed people
between 88 and 92%.
Leaving roughly 10% left-handed, with ambidextrous, or mixed-handess, less than 1%.
Recent studies have presented the theory that a very slight starvation of oxygen to the
area controlling the hands occurs during birth, resulting in one hands dominance.
There are also a set of genes associated with language, that could assist in determining
what digits we hold our fork with.
All of that may prove how we get to be right or left-handed, but why such a vast majority
are right-handed is still unknown.
No known advantage exists between the two, though if you ask a lefty, they’re sure
to pontificate on the virtues of being the left thumb wrestling champion at every office
party.
Effin Magnets
Even the most hardcore Juggalos raised a pierced eyebrow, when Shaggy 2 Dope, one face-painted
half of Insane Clown Posse, drop the infamous lyric Fucking magnets, how do they work? during
the song Miracles.
Science, duh… fans of Faygo soda, and the internet, replied mockingly to his rhetorical
question.
Yet, the reality is no one can truly explain why magnetism exists.
We understand HOW it works.
North poles, south poles and magnetic flux density vector fields; information people
have learned since the discovery of lodestones over 2,500 years ago.
But why magnetic properties are they way they are on our giant round rock?
That’s a giant shrug emoji.
It’s a force since forever is the best explanation given.
Next time ICP spits knowledge your way, maybe you should give it a second look...
Or not…
Placebo Effect
Something else you’re just going to have to accept; the placebo effect.
Most often associated with medical testing, it is not easily summed up, but we’re going
to try: if your brain believes the treatment you’re getting will help you, it just might.
It could be a pill you think will work, or an exercise routine given for rehab therapy.
Even if the medical aspects might be helping…
it could be because you’re brain thinks it going fix you.
The process is also used in medical studies on new medicines, with a portion of test patients
receiving actual treatment, while others patients only get expectations.
A controversial practice for over a century, treating some patients with medicine and giving
others lip-service and seems like a douche move.
Yet.. sometimes it works.
And no one can truly explain why.
Cocaine Mummies
Over three-quarters of the world’s cocaine supply comes from Columbia.
Mostly because the coca plant is indigenous to South America, the soil perfectly cultivated
to grow the leaf that creates the illegal drug.
Given it’s native location and combined with no known cross-continental travel at
the time, it explains why researchers are still stunned over the discovery of the alt-rock-band-name-sounding
Cocaine Mummies.
In 1992, archaeologists were testing the remains of mummified corpses from Egypt, when traces
of cocaine and tobacco particles.
The vegetation containing the chemical components necessary to make this happen should not be
found in Africa during the time the former people roamed Earth.
The scientists making the discovery have fought against accusations of faking the data, or
botched results, insisting their findings are accurate.
To this day, no one has been able to determine exactly who’s was the mummies dealer.
WOW Signal
Tom DeLonge, of Blink-182 fame, is a big fan of searching for the existence of extra-terrestrial
life.
Chances are, during his journey to prove aliens exist, he came across the discovery made by
Jerry Ehman on the campus of Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware, Ohio.
In August of 1977, the Big Ear telescope located at Perkins Observatory on the campus of Oh
Woo, picked up a 72 second transmission that is considered the most likely reception of
alien transmissions the planet has ever received.
While reviewing the recorded information, Ehman was so impressed by the findings that
he wrote the word WOW, next to it.
Since then, the finding has been commonly referred to as the Wow Signal.
Despite numerous attempts to locate another incident of the transmission, it has never
been found again, leaving astrologists, and rock stars, baffled.
The Bloop
Twenty years after the Wow Signal, another one-time anomaly occurred.
A loud, ultra-low frequency sound was heard at the same time, at two different underwater
listening stations – over 3,000 miles apart.
The sound has been dubbed The Bloop.
The recorded noise appeared to be animalistic, but given the distance between the stations
and the volume of the sound, it would require the aquatic animal to several times larger
than any known underwater creature currently known.
In 2012, a report was published claiming the sound was made by icequakes., or the cracking
and melting of ice falling off glaciers into the ocean.
That explanation makes sense, but it’s still only an educated guess.
We’d like to believe there’s an alien force living under the Earth’s crust.
One that will require we build giant robots and un-emoting pilots to defend ourselves
against their invasion.
And, of course, Idris Elba.
Hum-Dinger
Sounding like the least scariest movie monster ever, The Hum is a phenomenon that no one
can explain, and only a portion of the population can hear.
Those unlucky enough to notice the almost constant, invasive low-frequency humming or
droning noise can’t find a way to make it stop.
While people everywhere have claimed to have superior listening skills, the largest groups
of people occur in Taos, New Mexico, Bristol, London and Zug Island, Michigan.
Reported loosely by the media, scientists have visited the areas with high amounts of
complaints, but are unable to determine the exact source.
Especially since only some of the researches were even able to hear the hum.
While people have recreated the sound, no actual recording exists, leaving many people
to claim the hum is a hoax.
A claim refuted by those always asking can you hear it now?
Some Like it Hot
The Sun is over 93 million miles away from Earth, and it can still fry and egg on the
sidewalk.
Even with that heat, most people feel safe knowing how far away they are from the source.
One that reaches 6,ooo Kelvin, or over 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit on the surface.
In fact, more people fear the sun exploding, leaving the world in permanent, frozen darkness.
If you are one of those, you might not like to hear that less than 4,000 miles under your
feet is a solid iron core that scientist think reaches temperatures comparable to the sun’s
surface.
While that is supes hot, comparing the Earths core to the Sun’s core isn’t even close,
as the center of the sun is approximately a balmy 27 million degrees Fahrenheit.
Better bring your shades and sunscreen when you go to the stars.
Easter Island
Located in the southeastern Pacific Ocean is the Chilean island, Rapu Nui, more commonly
known as Easter Island.
Or that place with the giant heads.
The 887 large statues, known as Moai (Mo’ai – long “i”), were believed to be carved
by the native people of the island between 1,200 and 1,500 AD.
The statues are believed to be the ancestors of the islanders, as they aim inwards, towards
the land the statue’s subject once owned.
Though, archaeologists recently let the public at large know the heads had another giant
surprise…
a body.
While the most common images only show a tiny amount of the nearly 1,000 carved rocks, hundreds
of torsos have been discovered, some all the way to the knees.
Leaving some to believe that they were praying towards the sky.
Perhaps to a god, perhaps to the visitors that assisted in creating the monoliths.
How Are We Still Alone?
One of the biggest mysteries is one for a moment that has never actually happened.
Proof of extraterrestrial life, of alien anything in the vastness of space.
Astrologists have estimated the length, or age, of the universe at 13.8 billion light
years old.
Mostly because that’s all they can observe.
Assuming the possibility of a never-ending blackness, it seems scientifically unlikely
that not one strand of actual proof exists that we are not alone.
Given how much unknown is out there, it would seem likely that even a lost little ET would
have stumbled upon the third rock from the Sun by now.
Or, if you think we already have been visited, and the men in black or hiding the evidence,
then another life form knows WE exist.
Which could mean eventually, when we do discover evidence, we’re going to wish we were still
alone.
There are so many more mysteries out there that even the smartest minds on the planet
can’t explain.
Unexplained phenomenons, enigmas or paradoxes.
We should never stop in our quest to learn as much as can about our planet, but be confident
in knowing that we may never learn what truths are really out there.
What crazy conspiracies or magical moments have you perplexed.
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