NS: 13 things that do not make sense.

Post #307,470 by Another Scott 4/18/09 9:00:43 AM Reply	NS: 13 things that do not make sense. http://www.newscient...se.html?full=true 1 The placebo effect 2 The horizon problem 3 Ultra-energetic cosmic rays 4 Belfast homeopathy results 5 Dark matter 6 Viking's methane 7 Tetraneutrons 8 The Pioneer anomaly 9 Dark energy 10 The Kuiper cliff 11 The Wow signal 12 Not-so-constant constants 13 Cold fusion Cheers, Scott.
Post #307,500 by crazy 4/19/09 10:12:44 AM Reply	Homeopathy is the most mind blowing to me I can understand the placebo aspect, at least the testability of the experiment and the fact the brain controls the body chemistry at that moment. I don't pretend to understand the physics of the others. But the homeopathy is the easiest to test, repeated 4 times, and simply should not be. So there is another level of magnification that we have no clue, or another dimension. Take your pick.
Post #307,518 by pwhysall 4/19/09 5:04:46 PM Reply	Well, it doesn't work. And the Belfast results have not been repeated. The thing with homeopathy is that some German bloke made it all up in the 19th century.
Post #307,505 by mhuber 4/19/09 11:52:20 AM Reply	Placebo effect does not belong on the list Well, maybe the Parkinson's part. Pain exists to demand that the organism pay attention to a problem. Once the appropriate action has been taken, pain is no longer needed, so the system shuts it down. How it goes about doing that is a great subject for further study. The observation that morphine blockers block the placebo effect suggests that the internal chemistry involved is similar to that involved in how morphine shuts down pain. Or maybe there is operant conditioning happening on a very low level. But there is no mystery in the big picture. Alarm acknowledged, corrective action taken, so alarm turned off or at least down.

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