Inquiry Hour

     

1.1 - Identifying Questions and Hypotheses

        According to Australian scientists, continued harvesting of predatory fish may affect the environment in more ways than one would expect. The excessive culling and over-fishing may affect the natural food chain, and this can alter the blue carbon ecosystems. Changing the food chain means changing the amount of carbon captured in the seabed. "Predators play an important and potentially irreplaceable role in carbon cycling. The effect of the disproportionate loss of species high in the food chain cannot be underestimated." (Professor Connolly, http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/09/150928123318.htm)

1.2 - Generating Questions

        I am interested in a question. This question asks why do we dream? It amazes me how we spend one third of our lives sleeping yet we still don't know what exactly happens in our sleep. There are many theories as to why we sleep, but none of them sound logical to me.
        I have my own twenty questions about the world that I would like to find out. Here they are:

  • Why is the universe expanding?
  • Can we bring back extinct animals?
  • What is dark matter made of?
  • What is dark energy made of?
  • What is at the very bottom of the ocean?
  • Is there even a bottom to the ocean?
  • What is at the very core of the Earth?
  • Is artificial intelligence possible?
  • Are there other universes?
  • Are there beings on Earth that we cannot see?
  • Why is there time?
  • Is the Philosopher's Stone real? 
  • Is infinity real?
  • Is heaven real?
  • Is hell real?
  • Did evolution really occur?
  • Is there such a thing as karma?
  • What happens after death?
  • What is under the sea?
  • Are we the only inhabitants in the universe?

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