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8 Responses to "QotD: Scientific Unknowns"

1. | Reply Frode Danielsen
   Posted 18 Mar 2005 at 9:12am #
   

   Hm, on the matter of energy I think I'd personally would more like to see energy through antimatter. What, a few nanograms could power New York City a full day or something?

   Though it's a bit scary advocating such a powerful energy source, it being so volatile and dangerous - compared to water/solar/wind-power at least...

2. | Reply gary
   Posted 18 Mar 2005 at 9:20am #
   

   I'd like to see a detailed proof of M-Theory.

3. | Reply Eric
   Posted 18 Mar 2005 at 12:38pm #
   

   For me it has to be anti-gravity travel. Say goodbye to concrete roads, damage to the environment, bad air quality and reliance on petrol and diesel, and say hello to a better environment and clean air in our towns & cities.

4. | Reply spacedog
   Posted 18 Mar 2005 at 7:29pm #
   

   I'm with Bill Gates on this.

   The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers.

   Bill Gates, The Road Ahead, pg. 265

   It is impossible to factor prime numbers because they are, well, prime.

5. | Reply Brenda
   Posted 18 Mar 2005 at 10:06pm #
   

   Why do men have nipples?

6. | Reply andy
   Posted 18 Mar 2005 at 11:38pm #
   

   I'd like to see unification (aka the world formula). Goodbye to nearly every scientific problem 🙂

7. | Reply James Herdman
   Posted 20 Mar 2005 at 11:02am #
   

   re: Cold Fusion

   Simply having cold fusion won't eliminate our need for oil. Don't forget that oil is used for more than just fuel. We use it in plastics, fertilizers, numerous lubricants (Some of which simply have not found water-based replacements yet, e.g. rolling compounds), engine lubrication, and no doubt a myriad of other things I'm forgetting here. It remains to be seen if all of these can be done with vegetable oils as most vegetable oils aren't that viscous or degrade rapidly at higher temperatures.

   The single greatest thing that could happen to reduce our consumption of oils would be engines with no moving parts (Thus a reduced need for engine lubricants -- Albeit many are made with recycled oil now), or successful and cheap bio-plastics (I don't have a link with me at the moment for this -- I'll try to come back with one later).

8. | Reply Erik J. Barzeski
   Posted 20 Mar 2005 at 11:14am #
   

   James, I think cars go through a helluva lot more gasoline than they do engine lubricant.