7 Strange discoveries unexplained by science

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The town of Taos, in northcentral New Mexico, has been home to many famous residents including Julia Roberts, Dennis Hopper, D.H. Lawrence, Aldous Huxley and Donald Rumsfeld. It’s a little, laid-back artsy community that’s also home to an uncommon puzzle: a resident hum of unknown origin, the so called “Taos Hum.”

A number of theories are offered as an explanation, that range from the mundane to the marvelous, the mental to the paranormal. Stoned hippies, secret government mind control experiments, underground UFO bases and everything in between.

The hum appears to have first been reported in the early 1990s. Joe Mullins, a professor emeritus of engineering at the University of New Mexico, conducted research into the Taos Hum. Based on a survey of residents, about 2 percent of the general populace was considered to be “hearers,” those who claimed to discover the hum. Sensitive equipment was set up in the dwellings of several of the “hearers,” quantifying sounds and shakings but after extensive testing nothing unusual was detected. So mystery remains

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Scientists have eventually demystified the incredible workings of a 2,000-year old astronomical calculator assembled by ancient Greeks.

A fresh investigation of the Antikythera Mechanism [picture], a clock-like machine consisting of more than 30 exact, hand-cut bronze gears, demonstrate it to be more complex than previously believed–so much so that nothing comparable was built for another thousand years.

“This device is merely amazing, the only thing of its kind,” said study leader Mike Edmunds of Cardiff University in the united kingdom. “The layout is beautiful, the astronomy is just appropriate… In terms of historical and scarcity worth, I ‘ve to regard this mechanism as being more valuable as opposed to Mona Lisa.”

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A giant “monumental” rock construction found beneath the waters of the Sea of Galilee in Israel has archaeologists perplexed as to its objective and even how long ago it was constructed.

The cryptic construction is cone shaped, made of “unhewn basalt cobbles and boulders,” and weighs an estimated 60,000 short ton the research worker said. That makes it heftier than most modern day warships.

Growing almost 32 feet high, it’s a diameter of about 230 feet. To place that in view, the outer stone circle of Stonehenge has a diameter only half that with its tallest rocks not reaching that height.

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When we are not feeling well most people simply visit the physician. You read old magazines in the waiting room, put up with being poked and prodded, reply a flow of apparently never-ending questions, and pony up your insurance company’s copay. You do not typically worry considerably about what is in the medication that the physician has prescribed, as long as it gets you feeling like yourself again. You believe the physician understands what is best.

Imagine if, after taking it faithfully and filling that prescription, you found out the medication your physician had given you was not proven to make you feel better? You anticipated to get nicely after taking those pills, so you did.

It Is what occurs when someone takes a drug which he or she perceives will help, although it really has no established therapeutic effect for their specific state. The medication or treatment itself is called a placebo, from Latin for “I ‘ll please.” There are several distinct kinds of placebos. They may be pharmacologically inert, meaning they include no active ingredients. These sorts of placebos regularly include fundamental ingredients like sugar (thus the term “sugar pill”). Medicines that do have active ingredients but are not proven to work on the patient’s unique state can additionally be placebos. There have even been placebos in the type of injections, operation and other sorts of clinical treatments. Many people consider that alternative and complementary medicine count as placebos, also.

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Distant galaxy clusters strangely flow at a million miles per hour along a route nearly centered on the southern constellations Centaurus and Hydra.

“This isn’t something we set out to discover, but we cannot make it go away,” Kashlinsky said. “Now we see that it continues to much greater spaces — as far as 2.5 billion light years away.”

The bunches may actually be proceeding along a line stretching from our solar system toward Centaurus/Hydra, but the way of the movement is less certain. Signs shows the bunches are headed outward along this trail, from Earth, but the team cannot yet eliminate the opposite flow. “We find movement along this axis, but right now our data cannot say as powerfully as we had like whether the bunches are coming or going,” Kashlinsky said.

Its existence implies that some construction beyond the observable universe — outside our “horizon” — is pulling on matter in our area.

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Kepler-78b is a planet that should not exist. This scorching lava world circles its star every eight and a half hours at a space of less than one million miles – among the tightest known orbits. Based on present theories of planet formation, it could not have formed so close to its star, nor could it have proceeded there.

“This planet is an entire puzzle,” says astronomer David Latham of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA). “We do not understand how it formed or how it got to where it’s now. What we do understand is that it is not going to continue eternally.”

“Kepler-78b will probably find yourself in the star really shortly, astronomically speaking,” concurs CfA astronomer Dimitar Sasselov.

Not only is Kepler-78b a puzzle world, it’s the first known World-sized planet with the Earth like density. Kepler-78b twice as much. weighs nearly is about 20 percent bigger compared to Earth, with a diameter of 9,200 miles, and As a consequence it’s a density much like Earth’s, which indicates an Earthlike makeup of stone and iron.

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When science and spirituality battle it out, occasionally there’s no clear winner. In the instance of most Fortean or paranormal areas, their rivals are only labeled by the scientific organization with the blanket term ‘pseudo-science’, and the counter argument is usually that critics are closed minded. It Is not always the situation, but often these two pillars of popular culture mix like oil and water, or possibly…gas and water.

Sometimes the discussion goes beyond polite discourse also, and in such instances believers in whatever happenings can get outright terrible. Such was the case in 2002, following the airing of a Thailand TV show titled Code Crackers, wherein a team was sent by the Thai TV network iTV to investigate the famous Naga Fireballs.

A little background first. The Naga Fireballs are much as their name suggests. They’re the focal point of a phenomenon that happens in late October every year, on the Mekong River in Southeast Asia. They are little fireballs that mutely rise up out of the river, burning red in colour. They shoot up from the river’s surface instantly, to about a hundred meters, where they mutely burn out and disappear.

The fireballs are extensively known in Asia and are revered in Thailand as a portion of the observance of the Buddhist (Thai/Laos) Lenten season. Especially Wan Ok Phansa, which is the final day of the celebration. In modern day Thailand, the celebration involves enormous gatherings of people on the bank of the river, all to watch the fireballs rise and evaporate in the paradises.

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