10 Questions Science Can't Answer : A Guide to the Scientific Wilderness

Science News,  June 30, 2007  

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10 QUESTIONS SCIENCE CAN'T ANSWER (YET): A Guide to the Scientific Wilderness MICHAEL HANLON

In 1900, Lord Kelvin proclaimed that there was no more to be discovered in physics. He was wrong. Even after a century of remarkable advances since then, there are still unanswered questions large and small in physics as well as in every other field of science. Hanlon, a science writer, takes a close look at 10 such questions and describes the research that has gone into attempts to settle those issues and to solve other mysteries about the world. For example, scientists have still not decided whether animals other than people are self-aware. Hanlon also addresses the mysteries behind aging and the limits to human life spans. Other quandaries include whether dark matter (invisible stuff) and dark energy (invisible force) really control the universe, why obesity is so rampant, whether there is any truth to parapsychology, and what's so real about reality. Macmillan, 2007, 192 p., hardcover, $24.95.

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