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Re:Ask HN: What interesting scientific phenomena is still li... by ggeorgovassilis on Saturday July 29, 2023 @04:46AM (#36918242)
Consciousness
Re:Ask HN: What interesting scientific phenomena is still li... by beardyw on Saturday July 29, 2023 @06:26AM (#36918732)
I was going to say "how the brain works". Not the same, but a big overlap.
Re:Ask HN: What interesting scientific phenomena is still li... by austin-cheney on Saturday July 29, 2023 @06:14AM (#36918669)
I am currently interested in decentralization, both historically and functionally. It offers numerous immediate practical applications, but is not well understood and is complicated to implement.
Re:Ask HN: What interesting scientific phenomena is still li... by max_ on Sunday August 06, 2023 @10:57AM (#37022656)
You may like to have a look at Scala Politica [0]

[0]: https://www.academia.edu/38433249/Principia_Politica

Re:Ask HN: What interesting scientific phenomena is still li... by chrism238 on Saturday July 29, 2023 @07:53AM (#36919327)
Antidepressants work for 60% of people who take them, but no one knows why.
Re:Ask HN: What interesting scientific phenomena is still li... by jqpabc123 on Saturday July 29, 2023 @09:10AM (#36919958)
What are the actions and forces that really keep a bicycle balanced and upright?

And no, it's not the gyro effect because the wheels are too light and spin too slow; particularly at low speed. At best, the gyro effect may delay the progression of a fall.

https://theconversation.com/the-mysterious-biomechanics-of-r...

Re:Ask HN: What interesting scientific phenomena is still li... by amts on Saturday July 29, 2023 @11:05AM (#36920976)
Electricity/Magnetism isn't understood well enough by modern human monkeys yet. The default representation of electrons as particles gets so ridiculous in AC context. Like, suppose you'd like to transfer N buckets of energy in the form of apples to a monkey zoo. You'd just straight move them from their departure point to their destination point in the zoo. Now if electrons are supposedly just tiny particles of the same type and you'd like to transfer some energy from point A to point B via an AC transmission line, why would you need to toss them to and fro between these points at 50/60Hz frequency in order to deliver to point B instead of just straight passing from A to B? This is ridiculous.

And here's another one https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amplituhedron