Big Questions

My big question revolves around the universe and the ultimate questions of how it all came to be. More so, I'm interested in what the universe is hiding from us. Or rather, what we are blind to. Just like how we were blind to magnetic fields up to the early 1900s, I wonder what we are blind to today.

Technology is evolving exponentially so the next big discovery could be just around the corner. 

Learning about future tech is what will lead to the next discovery which could propel our world to unknown territories. Could you imagine if some tiny particle that could power the whole world was just floating around, right under our nose? We could be on the brink of a technological and scientific breakthrough and all we have to do is look closer. 

There are currently 118 elements on the periodic table and the last few have been created by scientists. That makes room for millions of combinations of elements, and who knows? One of them just might be what the next space shuttle will be made of, or the next large source of energy. Speaking of energy, the world needs answers for clean energy... And soon. All the issues with global warming and environmental destruction are looking to be answers by a new clean energy source. While there are many theories and ideas to create that, there is one that always prevails: the sun. "We get the astonishingly huge amount of 400 trillion trillion watts. To put this into a crazy context, every second the sun produces the same energy as about a trillion 1 megaton bombs! In one second, our sun produces enough energy for almost 500,000 years of the current needs of our so-called civilization." -The Boston Globe. The only problem is that we do not have the technology to absorb it all. These are the types of scientific matters we need to study to propel our generation to the future. 

If I were to try to be a part of the next big scientific discovery, I would have to be the pupil of the most intelligent and well informed professors/scientists of our generation. Sounds ridiculous but necessary. To make a discovery with a team of scientists that would change the world would be an awesome feeling. 

The next discovery could be right under our nose. In the ten years there could be personalized space travel, a new extraterrestrial species discovery, an inhabitable exoplanet discovery, and who knows what else?