A mystery is something that cannot be discovered or explained.
A mystery is something that cannot be explained, understood or discovered . It is something reserved, secret or hidden. People have a tendency to be interested in mysteries as something inaccessible since, if revealed, it would lose its appeal.
This means that, when a mystery is explained, it loses its mysterious status. For example: the police find five mutilated corpses and have no clues about who is responsible. People consider the case a mystery and create all kinds of theories (the criminal could be a psychopath, a wild animal, a werewolf or an alien), until an investigator discovers the murderer. The case, therefore, ceases to be a mystery.
Solving the mysteries
Mysteries, as in the aforementioned example, usually generate different theories , often far from science . When explanations cannot be developed through the scientific method , mysteries are considered trivial by scientists.
How the Egyptian pyramids were built and who Jack the Ripper was are some mysteries that have not yet been solved and that arouse the curiosity of many people.
The concept in religion
For religion , a mystery is that which is inaccessible to reason and which, therefore, must be an object of faith.
Mystery is also a dramatic piece that develops Christian traditions or scenes reflected in the Bible . The genre was born in the Middle Ages and featured characters such as angels, demons and God himself. Mystery works were approved by the clergy and were used to spread religious precepts.
The possible existence of extraterrestrial life is a great mystery.
mysteries of science
When a mystery manages to be understood, then it loses its hidden character and therefore ceases to be considered mysterious. This is what happened with the recently revealed Higgs Boson. However, there are many other open issues that have not yet been resolved; below we present some of them.
The placebo effect of sugar is one of them and refers to a certain functioning of the human body in the face of pain . This mystery is related to certain abilities of the body to get used to certain substances and with them suppress pain. If a patient is given artificial pain for several days and at the same time morphine is given, with the exception of the last day when sugar water is given instead of this substance. The curious and mysterious thing is that the body reacts with sugar just as it did with morphine , but specialists have not yet been able to understand why.
Cosmic voids are surely one of the most interesting mysteries related to the cosmos . These are certain immense spaces (several thousand light years in surface) in which there are no stars, galaxies, or any other stellar object, as if it were a deep empty well. The matter that is grouped together in stars and galaxies seems to concentrate at certain points, avoiding those cosmic voids where there is effectively nothing . At the moment it is not known what it is, whether it is a giant black hole or the gateway to a completely different galaxy.
Extraterrestrial life : This is another of the great mysteries of science and, despite the fact that over the centuries humanity has known how to go further and further, knowing other points of the Milky Way , it has not yet found another planet in the that life exists . For decades, all the planets in the Solar System have been combed without obtaining anything more than sediments and images of extremely hostile terrain.
The origin of our species
And finally, another of the great mysteries is the origin of our species as we understand it. There is a link in the evolutionary chain of humanity that, despite numerous investigations, they have not yet been able to discover.
Like this one, there is another great mystery that has to do precisely with the origin of life itself . In this regard, there are various hypotheses , however, all of them lack the necessary evidence to be considered irrevocable and scientific .