What is something humanity won't ever be able to figure out? \ stacker news ~AskSN

pull down to refresh

What is something humanity won't ever be able to figure out?

458 sats \ 16 comments \ @NovaRift 24 Feb AskSN

Is there anything you think humans will ever be able to figure out? I think there will be a lot of things that will give us a hard time figuring out, but maybe we could at some point. I think about these questions: What is the purpose of dreaming? What is the size of the whole universe? Will we ever seriously become an interplanetary species without any consequences? Are parallel universes real? How can the world achieve peace and become borderless? I'm curious to know what's on your list?

view all related items

25 sats \ 4 replies \ @Aardvark 24 Feb

How many licks it takes to get to the center of a tootsie pop.... The world may never know.

42 sats \ 3 replies \ @NovaRift OP 24 Feb

Toughest one 🤣

21 sats \ 2 replies \ @Aardvark 24 Feb

If a wise owl can't figure it out, who can?

52 sats \ 1 reply \ @NovaRift OP 24 Feb

Found it 😉

A "licking machine" designed by Purdue engineering students averaged 341 licks to the center. A similar experiment at the University of Michigan landed on 411 as the magic number. Students at Bellarmine University in Louisville used human subjects and looked at additional factors such as gender and candy color to get to a final number; they found that an orange Tootsie Pop takes an average of 148 licks to consume, while a grape pop averages 198 licks.

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/61622/scientists-calculate-number-licks-get-center-tootsie-pop

... “We started to test it, and it’s hard. Resisting the temptation to just bite into one is tough,” Ristroph admitted. 🤣

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @Aardvark 24 Feb

A "licking machine"

Stopped reading there... add to cart.

51 sats \ 4 replies \ @bief57 24 Feb

How and when was the universe created? I consider this to be the most difficult question to answer from a scientific point of view. If anyone tells you "God is the creator", then the next question would be "how and when was God created or born?"

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @NovaRift OP 24 Feb

Though not proven, I think the universe was created first because you can't create something that doesn't exist, even time and space weren't there. But then again, it raises the question of how the universe came from nothing. So thanks, that was a good one.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @bief57 24 Feb

The origin of existence itself is something that blows your mind.

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @Aardvark 24 Feb

I think that's impossible to figure out right? Something always came before...

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @bief57 24 Feb

What is the origin of the origin?

36 sats \ 1 reply \ @Undisciplined 24 Feb

Parallel universes is a good one. I think we could get answers to a couple of those others.

I doubt we will ever understand consciousness.

39 sats \ 0 replies \ @NovaRift OP 24 Feb

That is seriously a tough one. I think of it as the universe trying to understand itself