What we don't know
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The belief that the end of science is nearing is proven wrong. Many optimists claim that man has already deduced all the great laws of nature and has learned everything that can be learned about the natural world. However, such claims fail to consider the nature of the scientific process and the character of the questions that it attempts to answer. To understand that science is a vast frontier is not to catalog what is known but to recognize the existence of the unanswered questions. These questions can be qualified into three categories, namely, questions about what exists, how it came to be and how nature works.
Publication Name: MIT's Technology Review
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 1096-3715
Year: 1997
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The asymmetry between matter and antimatter: in 1999 new accelerators will start searching for violations in a fundamental symmetry of nature, throwing ope a window to physics beyond the unknown
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Physicist will be using the silicon microchip techology, used in identifying the top quark particle, in exploring the charge-parity question in the matter-antimatter issue. The silicon microchip technology will monitor the decay of B mesons, reconstructing the charge-parity events by monitoring the decay by-products.
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 1998
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Life's rocky start
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Minerals may have played a major role in life's beginnings, along with air, water and rock. An examination of the chemical event forming earth's origin is presented.
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 2001
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