{"id":1655,"date":"2009-09-03T18:22:25","date_gmt":"2009-09-03T18:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/astrologicalmusings\/2009\/09\/13-things-scientists-dont-unde.html"},"modified":"2009-09-03T18:22:25","modified_gmt":"2009-09-03T18:22:25","slug":"13-things-scientists-dont-unde","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/astrologicalmusings\/2009\/09\/13-things-scientists-dont-unde.html","title":{"rendered":"13 things scientists don&#8217;t understand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love a good mystery, and you probably do too. &nbsp;Check out these&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/special\/13-more-things\">13 THINGS SENT TO TRY US<\/a>&nbsp;from Michael Brooks via New Scientist &#8211; it&#8217;s almost enough to make you think there is more to this Universe than scientists can understand:&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>1. &nbsp;Radiation left from the big bang is still glowing in the sky &#8211; in a<br \/>\nmysterious and controversial pattern.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>2. &nbsp;Something unseeable and far bigger than anything in the known universe is<br \/>\nhauling a group of galaxies towards it at inexplicable speed.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>3. &nbsp;Tens of millions of years ago, the average temperature at the poles was 15 or<br \/>\n20 \u00b0C. Now let&#8217;s talk about climate change!<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>4. &nbsp;Space probes using Earth&#8217;s gravity to get a slingshot speed boost are moving<br \/>\nfaster than they should. Call in dark matter.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>5. &nbsp;The fusion of two distinct evolutionary lines is not supposed to work &#8211; but<br \/>\nthe seas are teeming with chimeras that prove it can.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/special\/13-more-things\">The other 8 mysteries and more details on each one here&#8230;<\/a><\/i><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love a good mystery, and you probably do too. &nbsp;Check out these&nbsp;13 THINGS SENT TO TRY US&nbsp;from Michael Brooks via New Scientist &#8211; it&#8217;s almost enough to make you think there is more to this Universe than scientists can understand:&nbsp; 1. &nbsp;Radiation left from the big bang is still glowing in the sky &#8211;&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":328,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mysteries"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>13 things scientists don&#039;t understand - Astrological Musings<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/astrologicalmusings\/2009\/09\/13-things-scientists-dont-unde.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"13 things scientists don&#039;t understand - Astrological Musings\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I love a good mystery, and you probably do too. &nbsp;Check out these&nbsp;13 THINGS SENT TO TRY US&nbsp;from Michael Brooks via New Scientist &#8211; 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