I am a big science fan. Our universe is full of things that we cannot even begin to understand.
I’m reading a book right now called 13 Things That Don’t Make Sense by Michael Brooks. It’s a very interesting little work on some of the persistent mysteries in the various fields of science.
One of the most interesting issues (to me at least) is a controversy that I hadn’t even heard of until now, called the Pioneer Anomaly. Google Pioneer Anomaly for an in-depth look. In a nutshell, though, the Pioneer Anomaly appears to disprove more than 400 years of accepted Newtonian science concerning gravity. It gets its name from NASA’s Pioneer 10 and 11 spacecraft, whose trajectories through space don’t line up with what the accepted science says. In other words, the math that says how gravity will influence their flight is wrong.
The answer could be something simple, like “some NASA scientist forgot to carry a one”, or something complex like “everything we know about physics is wrong”.
In any case, it’s fascinating to read about. A real science detective story. Exciting!
Oh, and there’s new pics from everyone’s favorite orbital observatory! The Hubble lives!
