Re: [asa] Scientific Mysteries

What interpretations of quantum mechanics are correct? Or are any of the current interpretations correct?

 William E. (Bill) Hamilton, Ph.D. Member ASA
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----- Original Message ----
From: David Opderbeck <dopderbeck@gmail.com>
To: ASA list <asa@calvin.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2008 8:53:08 AM
Subject: [asa] Scientific Mysteries

What are some paradoxes / mysteries / contradictions that the natural science have not yet been able to resolve concerning the natural world?

For example:
 
-- why are the pioneer space probes off course, given what we know from Newton and Einstein about gravity? (http://www.planetary.org/about/press/news/2008/0516_Newton_Einstein_Lost_in_Space.html)
 
-- what is the "dark matter" or force that fills up the empty spaces in the expanding universe?
 
This isn't to look for "gaps" or something like that. I think it would be helpful to illustrate that there are paradoxes and anomalies that science hasn't yet figured out about the natural world, just as there are paradoxes and anomalies that theology and Biblical studies haven't yet figured out with respect to faith -- every field of human inquiry has its paradoxes and anomalies.

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David W. Opderbeck
Associate Professor of Law
Seton Hall University Law School
Gibbons Institute of Law, Science & Technology 
      
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