What are the unsolved mysteries of our planet and space?

 

• MH370
  What happened to the plane that vanished without a trace?

A crewman on a Royal New Zealand Air Force P-3 Orion Rescue Flight 795 searches for debris from the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 on April 1.

A Malaysia Airlines flight vanished without a trace while en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8. The weather was clear and there was no distress signal from the cockpit when the plane disappeared from radar screens.

After more than nine months, not a single piece of debris from MH370 has turned up. Despite numerous conspiracy theories we still don't know what happened to the plane. All 239 people on board are presumed dead.

• Pollock Twins

A story from 1957 about supposed reincarnation, two girl sisters 11 and 6 years old killed in a car accident in England, with their mother giving birth to twins the following year

One of the twins bore the exact same birth marks as her deceased sister in exactly the same places, and it got spookier when the girls requested exactly the dead sisters’ toys which they couldn’t possibly have known about

They also asked to be taken to places they’d never heard of, like a park the departed sisters had been too.

• Bermuda Triangle

Known as the Bermuda Triangle, this legendary expanse of ocean can be found between the points of Miami, Bermuda, and Puerto Rico. Pilots often tell of their instruments going haywire and numerous ships have been lost at sea. With explanations ranging from gas bubbles to aliens, no one is sure what is behind the strange phenomena.

• Tamam Shud

Back in December 1948, an unidentified man was found dead in Somerton Beach, located in Adelaide, Australia. Found in one of his pockets was a piece of paper with the words “Tamam Shud” written on it. The words were translated “finished” or “ended” based on excerpts found in The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Although governments around the world have tried to identify the man his identity has remained mystery.

• Georgia Guidestones

Also identified as the American version of Stonehenge, the Georgia Guidestones located in Elbert County are shrouded in mystery, although they were erected only in 1979. Written on the walls are 10 “new commandments” written in English, Swahili, Hindi, Hebrew, Arabic, China, Russia, and Spanish although no one is sure why or for whom they were meant.

• Bigfoot

Also known as Sasquatch, bigfoot is supposedly a creature that lives in the snowy mountainous regions of the United States and Canada. It may be identified as a gorilla at first, however, its walking posture can be compared to that of a man’s.

• Black Dahlia Murder

22-year old Elizabeth Short was very active at promoting herself into showbiz at the time the Black Dahlia murder occurred, however, no one knew of the killer or who actually did the murder.

• Stonehenge

While Stonehenge is a very fascinating structure due to the big rocks that stand atop one another, the biggest mystery isn’t how it was created but why.

• Severed Foot Beach in British Columbia

is not uncommon for bodies to wash up on beaches but for one beach in British Columbia severed feet have consistently been floating ashore for the past several years causing numerous theories to be put forth.

• DB Cooper

When DB Cooper hijacked a Boeing 727 along with $200,000, he proceeded to jump out of the plane with a parachute. He was never found, however, and this remains the only unsolved case in US aviation history.

• SS Ourang Medan

What happened to SS Ourang Medan or “Man from Medan” in Malaysia is perhaps one of the most fascinating and mind-boggling mysteries that ever existed in seafaring history. Everything began with an SOS message in 1947 that mentioned the captain, along with the rest of the crew, was dead. What’s worse, even the telegrapher died during the transmission of the message. When the Silver Star was able to receive the distress call and went to inspect the ship, they confirmed the deaths of all aboard. Speculations of ghosts, hazardous chemicals, and even aliens have been raised, but there is still no conclusion as to what actually happened.

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What are some of the unsolved mysteries of India?

Sun rays :On specific days of a year ;sun rays directly fall on idol of Goddess Mahalkshmi at Kolhapur , Maharashtra.

Mystery : These sun rays only fall on Goddess during sun set.

Festival : Well, this special event is treated as a salutation by Lord Sun to cosmic mother and thus it is celebrated as Kiran-Utsav by many devotee.

Feet : On 31th January and 9 November; these rays fall on feet of Goddess Mahalakshmi- Hindu deity of opulence and influence.

Chest : On 1st February and 10 November; these rays fall on chest of Goddess Mahalakshmi.

Body :On 2nd February and 11 November, these rays fall on entire body of Goddess Mahalakshmi.

Marvel : Naturally, many are also amazed at architectural knowledge of ancient India as this shrine was built around 634 CE .

Prayer : Jai Mata Mahalakshmi (salutations to divine mother !)

Meaning : “Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India.” :Mark Twain (on hinduism )

Pic credits : Google

What are the most famous solved mysteries?

 On the night of 21st August 1986, people in remote villages in Northwest Cameroon were about to end one of their days. Families tucked their children safely into bed, left the remaining chores and went to sleep.

The next day, more than 1700 of them didn't wake up. They were dead. Their bodies showed no signs of visible injuries and nobody had any explanation as to how they died.

When the news of this unusual event spread, it created mass fear and panic among the locals. Villagers suspected it to be caused by the spirit of a woman that lived around the lake, while others suspected a bioweapon attack. However, the truth was far more complex and strange.

The villages were located near Lake Nyos, a lake which sat inside an old volcanic crater. For centuries underground volcanic activity had been leaking CO2 gas into its waters. The gas kept building inside it without any escape.

Lake Nyos

Then on that fateful night, maybe an earthquake or a landslide, ended up releasing all that built up gas. The exact cause remains unknown. Villagers however, heard strange noises from the lake that night.

Soon, an estimated 300000 tons of CO2 engulfed the villages like an invisible cloud. Since CO2 is heavier than air, it didn't dissipate and many villagers never got a chance to escape. They suffocated in their sleep.

A mystery that started with local folklore and a suspected bio weapon attack ended up having a scientific explanation to it. In 2001, almost 15 years after the initial disaster scientists installed pipes that now lets the gas escape safely.

Are there any archaeological mysteries that remain unsolved?

 As the world's oldest temple, Gobeklitepe This deepens the mystery of human history.

Radiocarbon dating has revealed that this archaeological site is approximately 12,000 years old.

What is the "mystery" about this ruin? "There are no traces of agriculture or settled life in the surrounding area, yet religious facilities exist. "That's the point.

In the first place, in order to construct a religious facility, there needs to be a "reason" for people to visit the temple with a certain frequency, and if people are not settled in the surrounding area, there is no need for a permanent temple in one place.

Furthermore, constructing large temples requires a large workforce, which presupposes the existence of organized people and religious leaders. It is said that this kind of "social status" only emerged after the beginning of agriculture.

Despite this, the reason why Göbekli Tepe remains undiscovered, with no evidence of agricultural settlement in the surrounding area, remains unknown.

If such a temple truly existed during the hunter-gatherer era, it would drastically overturn established archaeological theories.

Furthermore, the fact that Göbekli Tepe is located near Mount Karaja also increases the possibility of overturning previous theories. Modern cultivated wheat and the wild wheat of Mount Karaja are the closest genetically, and it is believed that agriculture began in this area. Considering this together with the aforementioned temple... "There was already a social structure, and when agriculture was added to it, a large-scale society rapidly developed. "This overturns the established theory that "small-scale vegetable gardens gradually formed larger communities."

Although excavation work is still ongoing, it has been registered as a World Heritage Site.

Are there any mysteries yet to be revealed in the Sahara desert?

 

The Sahara Desert holds a mystery of megaliths 1,000 years older than Stonehenge. Called Nabta Playa, the site includes a ring of standing stones, five rows of upright and fallen stone slabs, and a possible tomb. The stones weigh several tons, some as high as 2.7 meters. An unknown group of Stone Age people built the complex 6,000 to 6,500 years ago, and the stones represent the oldest astronomical alignment of megaliths ever discovered.

Satellite photographs confirm that one of the rows aligns east-west, and certain stone slabs within the circle align north-south. Two additional rows originate from the same megalith, but one runs northeast and the other southeast. The stones mark the summer solstice and possibly the rainy season. Nabta Playa was built on the shore of a lake and is partially submerged during the summer and fall. Livestock burials and everyday items have been found at the site, but no human remains.

Nabta Playa challenges accepted beliefs among Egyptologists. The builders of that era were more advanced than previously believed and may even have been one of the cultures that inspired the Egyptian dynasty of kings.

What are some unsolved mysteries about temples in India?

 There are many temples which are very mysterious and even scientists have not been able to explain the mysteries surrounding the temple. Explaing about all the temples is an impossible feat, so I will explain about one temple.

Kailasa temple at Ellora caves :

• This temple seems to be built by a very advanced civilization.
• What’s special about this temple is it was not built by adding stone blocks but an entire mountain was carved to create this temple.

• This is the only temple in the whole world where a mountain was cut out from the top , to create a structure.
• In all other temples and caves, even in Ellora and the rest of the world, the rock was cut from the front and carved as they went along.

• The whole world has followed a rock cutting technique called “cut-in-monolith” while Kailasa temple is the only one that has used the exact opposite technique called “cut-out monolith” .
• To see why this technique is different , let’s take a look at the pillar , that is over 100ft tall.

• See how small human beings look , when compared to this pillar. Normally, to create such a huge pillar, it would take years of work, carving accurately on the huge rock. But this pillar was carved by scooping out all the pieces of mountain around it.

• You can imagine the amount of rock , which has been removed to create this pillar.
• Historians and archaeologists are confused because of the sheer amount of rock that was removed in this temple. Archaeologists confirm that over 400,000 tonnes of rock had to be scooped out , which would have taken not years, but centuries of human labour.
• Historians have no record of such a monstrous task and they think that this temple was built in less than 18 years !!!

• Let’s do a simple math and see if they are correct. I am going to assume that people worked everyday for 18 years and for 12 hours straight with no breaks at all. I am going to ignore rainy days, festivals, war time and assume that people worked like robots ceaselessly. I am also going to ignore the time taken to carve intricate carvings and complex engineering designs and planning and just focus on the removal of rocks.
• If 400,000 tons of rocks were removed in 18 years , 22,222 tons of rocks had to be removed every year. This means that 60 tons of rocks were removed every day, which gives us 5 tons of rocks were removed every hour.
• I think we can all agree that this is not even possible today to remove 5 tons of rock from a mountain every hour. Not even with the so called advanced machines we have. So if it is not humanly possible , was it done by the humans ??
• Now forget about creating such an extraordinary structure . Can human beings atleast destroy this temple? Infact Aurangzeb, a Jihadi king employed a thousand workers to completely demolish this temple.
• In the year 1682, the Jihadi who was disrobed by the Marathas and later had died a dog’s death , with no one beside him, had ordered the temple to be destroyed so that there would be no trace of it.
• Records show that a thousand people worked for 3 years , and they could only do a very minimal damage. They could break and disfigure a few statues here and there but they realized that it is just not possible to completely destroy this temple. Finally he gave up the plan of destroying this temple. Poor Dufferzeb! He realizes everything very late! At first he thought that he would subdue Marathas but poor Aurangzeb after getting beaten around by Marathas for 27 years , finally realized that he was no match for them! What a shame for Aurangzeb ! Finally died like a dog with no one beside him and even his treasury was empty, and later his descendants became a puppet of the great Peshwa Baji Rao. Poor Mughals !!! They could’nt even manage their treasury and some comedians think that they made our country rich!!!

• Infact archaeologists agree that Kailasa temple was created before any other temple in the Ellora cave complex. Could this have been built centuries before human beings started carving other temples nearby? Is this why the architecture , the design and the size of is so much better and bigger than other temples? If it was built by humans, it is logical to expect that the rock cutting tchniques and design would become better over time. People would gain more experience and knowledge and make better structures in the future. However, the Kailasa temple is the oldest and the biggest temple carved with engineering perfection.
• Unlike other temples , the Kailasa is the only temple that is visible from the air. Out of 34 temples , all carved side by side , Kailasa stands out and you can see it while flying over it.
• So the mystery is how was this temple made and who made it? If you vist this temple , there are many more features which might shock you. Unlike other temples of Ellora , notice how well its rectangular design is oriented with all the four directions. Its entrance faces perfectly to the west.

• Unlike most other temples of Ellora , this temple has bridges that connect towers , rainwater harvesting systems, drainage systems , hidden underground passages , secret peepholes that can show people walking in , elaborate balconies in different areas and complex stairways that connect multiple levels.

• And all of this had to be planned accurately before they started carving the mountain. For example, you cannot carve these two structures seperately and then decide to build a bridge later. No connecting rocks or external rocks were used at all, and everything was carved perfectly from one mountain. Do you still believe that this was done with chisels, hammers and pickaxes by people with limited mathematical and architectural knowledge? I hope we all can agree that the Kailasa temple was built by a much advanced civilization.

• So who do you think built this?

HAR HAR MAHADEVA.

What are the biggest mysteries about gravity that scientists still can't explain?

 A tiny fridge magnet can lift a paperclip, completely overpowering the pull of the entire Earth. To physicists, this baffling weakness is just the first of gravity's many mysteries.

This massive discrepancy is known as the "hierarchy problem." Gravity is roughly 10^40 times weaker than the electromagnetic force. Physicists do not know why it is so diluted compared to the other fundamental forces. Some theoretical models suggest gravity might be "leaking" into extra dimensions, but there is no experimental proof.

The second major hurdle is quantum gravity. Every other fundamental interaction—electromagnetism, the strong nuclear force, and the weak nuclear force—has a proven quantum mechanical description involving subatomic carrier particles. Gravity does not. Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity describes gravity as the smooth, continuous warping of spacetime. Quantum mechanics, conversely, dictates that the universe operates in discrete, unpredictable jumps. These two mathematical frameworks are fundamentally incompatible. When researchers try to combine them into a single equation, the math yields impossible infinite answers.

This incompatibility becomes a concrete problem when looking at black holes. At the center of a black hole lies a singularity, a point where matter is compressed into infinite density and spacetime curvature becomes infinite. In physics, infinities usually mean a theory has broken down and stopped describing reality. Because there is no quantum theory of gravity, scientists cannot describe what actually happens to matter and spacetime at the core of a black hole.

Finally, gravity refuses to behave as expected on cosmic scales. When astronomers measure the rotation of galaxies, the outer edges spin far too fast to be held together by the gravity of the visible stars and gas. The outer stars should fling off into space. To explain why galaxies do not tear themselves apart, physicists postulate the existence of "dark matter"—an invisible substance exerting massive gravitational pull. Yet, despite decades of searching, no one has detected a dark matter particle, leaving the true nature of galactic gravity unexplained.

Superimposed mass density contours showing the gravitational lensing of dark matter in the Bullet Cluster. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

What are the mysteries and secrets of the cave of Lord Shiva?

 There are two stories regarding the secret cave of Shiva.

One is the Yana caves, Karnataka and the other is Shivkhori, Jammu.

Locals of Yana say that, when the Asur Bhasmasura wanted to put his hand on Shiva and turn Shiva into ash, Lord Vishnu came as Mohini and put an end to Bhasmasura. This incident occurred at the Yana cave, Karnataka.

(Yana cave, Karnataka )

In this cave there is a Swayambhu Shivlinga, water drips from the roof over the Linga, adding to the sanctity of the place.

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• Yet another story says, this incident happened in Jammu, and the cave or Khori where Shiva took shelter thus became famous as Shivkhori.

This cave is situated in the Reasi district of Jammu amd Kashmir, and is often reverred as the Home of Gods.

• It is believed that Shiva stays in the Shivkhori and there is a secret route, which connects it to Amarnath. This cave has a natural Shiva lingam (Swayambhu) which is 2 to 3 meters in height.
• The cave has a secret route which connects it to Amarnath.
• The cave is now closed as some Sadhus who dared to go inside the cave, never returned. The cave is mere 200 meters in length and one Meter wide.
• There cave’s roof is carved with snake formations, and there is a continuous flow of water from the roof onto the Shiva lingam.

Source : Wikipedia

Are there any archaeological mysteries that remain unsolved?

 Have you ever heard the term dolmen?

Did you know that a word that only appeared in high school Japanese history textbooks can actually help you feel closer to the characteristics of ancient megalithic culture, and that there is actually much that is not known about the unique shape of these tombs?

While these mysterious dolmens can be seen in Japan as well, in neighboring South Korea, there are as many as 30,000 dolmens, accounting for half of the world's total. These densely populated dolmens, with their varying rock shapes and heights depending on the region, represent a unique culture and have been registered as a World Cultural Heritage site.

The structure of these dolmens is extremely simple, ranging from the common type where a table-shaped rock rests on a base stone, to more elaborate dolmens like those found on Jeju Island, which are surrounded by base stones and have a stone placed on top, resembling a stone chamber.

Here's a question: Do you know why this structure is called a dolmen?

Is it because it's a tomb with a large rock placed on top of a base stone?

The answer is no.

Most people think of them as tombs because they are labeled as "dolmens," and indeed, carbon monoxide poisoning has revealed human remains inside, but it is unknown whether dolmens were actually built as tombs in the first place. It is also unknown who built the first dolmen, for what purpose, or even what the original dolmen was.

Furthermore, since human remains are often not found inside these tombs , I personally believe they cannot be simply called tombs. (From here on, I will use the term "dolmen.")

Now, to return to the main point, the culture of dolmens is not limited to Korea and Japan. Structures believed to be dolmens are scattered all over the world.

These dolmen-like structures, as seen in the photographs, exist in various regions, primarily in the UK and South Korea, but also in Ireland, France, China, Spain, Sweden, Malaysia, India, Georgia, Bulgaria, and Guinea.

South Korea, Germany, and France, in particular, have many such structures remaining, and Spain has what is believed to be the world's oldest surviving dolmen, dating back to 7000 BC.

Despite their rich history, dolmens are often found in places that seem to have no causal connection to other countries, such as Guinea or India.

Photo believed to be of a dolmen in Guinea ↓

Indian dolmens ↓

You might wonder how it spread to such unconnected regions.

that's right.

The most mysterious thing about this building is,

"We don't know how it spread."

That's the thing.

There are two main possibilities to consider regarding this extremely difficult mystery.

The first theory is that each culture created the dolmen as a distinct cultural construct.

This is the most widely accepted theory, suggesting that ancient people built structures through their own individual cultures, but honestly, I still have my doubts.

Given the many common characteristics they share, it seems incredibly perplexing to me that they were built upon independent cultures.

However, it's not possible to generalize, as the spiral patterns found at the Bruna-bo-Nya archaeological site in Ireland sometimes resemble the spiral patterns on Jomon pottery.

The second theory is that the ancient people built the temples after encountering a common event or through trade.

This idea is somewhat difficult to grasp, but if we consider that they were built through trade, then this explanation makes sense. In fact, structures believed to be dolmens are mainly found along the coast, so it's possible to speculate that they spread by ship.

World map from 10,000 BC ↓

However, it is unlikely that dolmen structures spread from Europe to Korea, Japan, and even Malaysia through trade, and since no documents have been found, this theory simply lacks sufficient evidence to be proven.

Furthermore, considering whether the navigation technology to reach Korea, Guyana, and Malaysia existed at that time, this theory seems unrealistic.

Other theories include "it was transmitted by aliens" and "it's a derivative of menhir" (because the word dolmen is the same Breton language as the word menhir), but so far no evidence has been found to support these claims.

A mural carved into a dolmen that looks like an alien ↓

A dolmen in Brittany, the birthplace of the Breton language ↓

However, even the mysterious dolmens have some features that have been partially explained.

This theory suggests that dolmens, particularly those in the Brittany region, were used for equatorial rituals . This is because dolmens are always positioned east-west, with their openings facing east, indicating a preference for equatorial rites.

Another

interesting feature is that,

despite being located at the far ends of the Eurasian continent, the dolmens in Korea and Spain share the same form .

These structures known as dolmens, whose details remain largely unknown and which continue to raise many questions, stir people's imaginations and stand quietly to this day.