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QuestionWhat are some things in physics we just don’t understand but we know it exists?(self.Physics)
submitted 4 weeks, 2 days ago by Ok-Review-3047 to /r/Physics (3.2m)
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There’s many unknown things, things that we don’t know exist and therefore don’t understand.

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[–]Dapper-Tomatillo-87533 points4 weeks, 2 days ago

The subquestion that blew my mind in undergrad is "what is the overwhelming majority of the universe?" I didn't even know that was a question! 

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[–]Grabs_Diaz29 points4 weeks, 2 days ago

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I find it fascinating how dark matter and dark energy are commonly brought up together, yet describe very different observations for which we have quite different degrees of certainty.

With dark matter, we are at least relatively sure that it's some form of matter. It might be something we already know but can't see out there, or more likely, it's a new form of matter that we haven't seen before. Theories like modified Newtonian dynamics that attempt to explain away the evidence for dark matter by adjusting the laws of physics seem to fall flat so far.

Meanwhile, dark energy could be anything. It could be some unknown particle field, could simply be a cosmological constant or maybe our understanding of cosmology itself is fundamentally wrong.

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[–]Smoke_Santa2 points4 weeks ago

Great comment, seems like the only thing they have in common is that they don't interact with electromagnetic forces, otherwise they are completely different. MOND is really looked down upon by Sean Carroll so I'm not sure if it's even worth mentioning as a theory.

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[–]Smoke_Santa1 point4 weeks ago

I see no reason why they cannot be answered.

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[–]Smoke_Santa1 point4 weeks ago

again, I don't see any reason why they cannot be, or that we need to wait for a human evolution. Obviously we will forever operate under the assumption that the observable universe behaves the same as the universe as a whole until proven otherwise. Until 100 years ago, we didn't even prove that galaxies exist beyond our own.

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[–]QVRedit-19 points4 weeks, 2 days ago

The answer to that question is: ‘Empty Space’.
Although we know not even that is empty…

Of course, there is the occasional lump of ‘stuff’ scattered around in that space too - which we call ‘matter’.

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