the unexplainable

[blythe025]

Thanks to Mr. Gaiman for pointing out this one:
There is an article in The New Scientist on 13 things that don't make sense, which I found to be rather interesting

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a good list for sure

[goodfoot08]

This list is interesting. Some of the things like dark matter are endlessly interesting, if unexplainable. I have made a hobby out of thinking of mundane unexplainables, or at least unexplainable in a surface every day way. Things that are beyond comprehension to me include how adhesive tape works--why is is sticky? how long does it take for a piece of glass to "flow" into a puddle. how so many technological things we use every day really work. It really is a new magic we almost choose not to understand.
Have you read any DeLint? Or Dan Simmons? How do you compare either to Gaiman? I read American Gods and kept thinking of things DeLint or Simmons do in his horror fiction.

Re: a good list for sure

[blythe025]

I haven't read DeLint or Simmons. Although I own one of DeLint's books. I love Neil Gaiman with a passion, mostly because of the themes he emplores, so I'm interested to check those writers out when I get a chance.

You know how it goes, so many books to read, so little time.

I love thinking about how curious our world is, too. It seems to me that even though science tries to explain how it works, it still is incomprehensible in a way. Okay so we know that molecules break down and merge and change to certain rules, but why? Why did whatever creater make it that way, if there is a creater? and if there isn't a creater, then why in all the ramdomness of the universe did life and matter fall into the patterns that they do, as opposed to some other pattern? Whose to say, really, that it could not have been entirely different, something beyond our understanding?

It's a fascinating universe, isn't it?

[layer]

the way i see it, today's science was yesterday's magic. they may debunk it today, but find a scientific explanation for it tomorrow. every advance unveils new questions. they will never explain it all.