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Originally Posted by Mr.GoodStuff
Filling in the blanks with speculation frustrates scientists who want a definite answer with facts, but sometimes we are unable to really prove why we feel the way we feel. So is the nature of the universe. As hard as we try to make sense of all of this, the more it begins to become confusing. Why, I don't know but I know it's true.
"Things are covering themselves up just as fast as they are revealing themselves"
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it frustrates me as well. i like to hypothesize certain things... but i would still love a definite answer. i am not religious in anyway... beside that i find the history interesting and how the people of that time viewed and understood their world. i believe in science and i need proof to believe something. if not proof, a strong inkling towards a certain side of an arguement... or a majority agreement between myself and others who believe the same thing. if none of that... then common sense prevails.
i agree 100% that it can sometimes be difficult to prove/explain the way we feel about a topic.... knowing that i, myself knows how and why i feel a certain way but can't explain it in a way that others can comprehend.
the quote at the end of your post sums up a lot. especially in science. the search for answers to specific questions almost always brings up new, often more difficult questions. for example.... scientists often wondered if volcanic activity could be present on bodies much further from the sun than say, earth or even mars. once they found it was entirely possible, they wanted to know why. such as in the case of Jupiter's moon Io. It is the most volcanically active body in our solar system, yet it is millions of miles away from the sun. One question answered (is there volcanism deep in our solar system?) and more questions arise (how is it getting so much heat?) Eventually scientist came to realize that Io was being bent and pulled and squeezed by the gravity of Jupiter and its satellites, causing the inside of Io to become super hot and molten.
and then it goes even further...... once scientists found out that volcanism is present in our outer solar system, scientists then asked another question... "how far out does volcanism exist?" once again, the original question (which stemmed from another question) gets answered and brings along more questions. Neptune's moon Triton is much farther from the sun that Io, yet it too has active volcanic features. However, they were like nothing ever seen before. Instead of molten rock, it was molten ice. there are ice volcanoes and the biggest geysers in the solar system. geysers that shoot well up into the sky and are tinted black due to a chemical process going on in the atmosphere. I believe it was either nitrogen or methane ice. Either way, their question was answered.... but it arose the question of how the hell these strange volcanic features work? and it goes on and on...
i just hope a plausible, widely accepted theory of everything exists before i die