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The Pioneer Anomaly.This discusses the Pioneer 10 and Pioneer 11 space probes, which appear to be veering off course and drifting towards the sun. At the time of writing of the book there was a growing speculation as to whether this phenomenon could be explained by a yet-undetermined fault in the rockets' systems or whether this was an unidentified effect of gravity.
According to John Searle, computation and syntax are observer-relative but the cognition of the human mind is not observer-relative. [9] Such a position seems to be bolstered by arguments from the indeterminacy of translation offered by Quine and Kripke's skeptical paradox regarding meaning which support the conclusion that the interpretation ...
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This article is a list of notable unsolved problems in astronomy.Problems may be theoretical or experimental. Theoretical problems result from inability of current theories to explain observed phenomena or experimental results.
Philosopher Brian Leftow has argued that the question cannot have a causal explanation (as any cause must itself have a cause) or a contingent explanation (as the factors giving the contingency must pre-exist), and that if there is an answer, it must be something that exists necessarily (i.e., something that just exists, rather than is caused).
John Dickson Carr, who also wrote as Carter Dickson, was known as "master of the locked-room mystery". [5] His 1935 novel The Hollow Man (US title: The Three Coffins ) was in 1981 voted the best locked-room mystery novel of all time by 17 authors and reviewers, [ 6 ] [ 7 ] although Carr himself names Leroux's The Mystery of the Yellow Room as ...
Biosynthesis: Can desired molecules, natural products or otherwise, be produced in high yield through biosynthetic pathway manipulation? [20] What is the mechanism of allosteric transitions of proteins? The concerted and sequential models have been hypothesised but neither has been verified. What are the endogenous ligands of orphan receptors?
Sacred mysteries are the areas of supernatural phenomena associated with a divinity or a religious belief and praxis. Sacred mysteries may be either: Religious beliefs, rituals or practices which are kept secret from the uninitiated. Beliefs of the religion which are public knowledge but cannot be easily explained by normal rational or ...