Science's 125 Big Questions

Shadow Wrought writes "To celebrate their 125th anniversary Science is running a series of articles on the 125 Questions of Science. The top 25 each link to an article exploring the subject of the question in depth. Included are such questions as: Are we alone in the Universe? What are the limits of conventional computing? How did cooperative behavior evolve?"

Comments

Re:Good questions

[Planesdragon]

My favourite is why does time have an arrow?

Because "time" is a dimension all its own.

Imagine a million bugs fighting. These bugs keep killing each other, and also keep multiplying. As we watch, the bugs start fighting on the back of others bugs, and gradually the insect melee becomes higher and higher.

Time is up: we move foward because we are buyoed by the actions of the past.

Or, to put it another way: Time is different because everything moves through all points in time; at different rates, perhaps, but if you could stand outside of the universe wiht a clockwatch, you could examine any bit of matter/energy at a specific time and find that it's in one and only one location.

They missed one

[christurkel]

126. Why do Slashdot editors post dups, even the same article on the same day?

(Relax son, it's a joke)