Please share your mind boggling ponderings.

[Florries]

My baby is 8 months old and I find myself staring at him, thinking 'I GREW that!' I made those tiny fingers and tiny toenails. My human body actually produced another human. It's just amazing when you sit at think about it.

And what's really blown my mind is thinking that I was born with all my eggs, all ready and waiting to go - it's like I carried DS around with me my whole life until one day that particular egg desended and it met that 1 particular sperm which made DS. If it had been any of the other eggs, I could have a completely different baby!

Women's bodies are amazing.

Please share your own equally pointless but also mind bending ponderings.

How is the world not just one big rubbish dump? I mean, with this many people and the amount of junk that gets dumped that doesn't bio-degrade...

Mind = Blown at some of these. Especially Life essence. That's gonna have me boggled for days.

Also birds that migrate every year, how do they (a) know when they should be migrating (as it is usually a specific time every year) (b) know where to go? especially if they have never been there before

If you were stranded on a desert island, how come you can't just make electricity? Isnt that what Issac Newton essentially did? There wasn't electricity before he discovered it.

I'm sure I was told the light bulb hd been invested before electricity was even a thing.

Oh wait, was Newton the Gravity guy?

How is there enough room on the planet to grow all the food in all the shops in all the world?
If you think about how many bags of say Frozen peas there are in every single shop. How can that many be grown? Where are all the pea farms?

I’m always mind blown by the timescales of things like the 4.6 billion years in a 24 hour clock thing where it turns out in that analogy humans have only been around for like 3 seconds or something.

And why the body just makes random movements for seemingly no reason, ie. I’m just sitting watching tv and my toes just moved up and down- my brain obviously told them too but why, I didn’t think ‘let’s move my toes’ or have any reason to. Does that make sense?

I shouldn't be reading all these before I go to bed my mind is literally blown!

Someone has touched on it upthread but the fact that so many animals can walk we soon as they are born, yet it takes humans a year 🤷🏻‍♀️

Also, who decided to fry the first egg? Did someone happen to drop an egg on some really hot concrete and inadvertently fry one? Was it planned? Was it a mistake? I've definitely thought about that more than I'd care to admit

Death. My brain starts to generate smoke if/when I contemplate it.

@Sparklingbrook just peas?

Florries I feel like Thomas Edison was the man who invented the lightbulb?? No idea about electricity... Maybe Sir Alexander Graham Bell? Or actually he may have invented the telephone. Who knows!

Before even the frying bit though pfb1 someone saw the things that chicks get born out of and thought ‘I’m gonna eat that if it hasn’t got a chick’ why did that even cross their mind?!?!

How many goes did they have at making houmous before it was actually edible? I’ve had loads of goes and mine’s still rank. Why did they not give up and go back to chickpea soup

Animal instincts are fascinating aren’t they especially ants. Watching an army of ants on their way somewhere makes me think they’d rule the world if they were just a bit bigger

Bell invented the telephone.

Edison stole the lightbulb from Joseph Swan.

Before even the frying bit though pfb1 someone saw the things that chicks get born out of and thought ‘I’m gonna eat that if it hasn’t got a chick’ why did that even cross their mind?!?!

😵 The plot thickens 🤔

But why is cow's milk mind boggling? Humans would have breastfed and so would other animals. It doesn't take a huge amount of imagination to use the milk from another animal if the human mother couldn't feed the baby, does it?

What makes my mind blow is was it meat accidentally falling into a fire & ancient man thinking cor this tastes good or was it an inquisitive person (like me) who thought (during a glut of meat) I wonder what this would taste like if I burnt it?

How did we go from grunting sounds to actual words i.e how did urghhh become tree etc?

Why did our common ancestor (us & primates) decide to get down from the tree?

Plus every question mentioned above.

Florries
Re the electricity thing, you can create it on a desert island by rubbing sticks or flint together really fast, creating static, which is released in the form of heat.

Sleep. Essentially you're just lying there while the body repairs/gathers more energy but how does this work?

I mean we don't have to plug ourselves into chargers. We get more energy from doing nothing! (Obviously a different energy to food ect)

Storms, tornadoes fascinate me. I know the technicalities behind them, but why does the tornado suck everything up and always go into that perfect shape? There are such powerful forces at work.

I understand Lightening now, but it took a lot of pondering to fully understand it.

How do animals etc know to evolve as they do? For example the angler fish that has the funny wiggly thing over its head to attract other fish that if can then eat. How did they know thousands of years back that by growing this they would be better fed??
How do chameleons change colour??

A bit similar to Sparklingbrook but I think about all the 'things' around me and how most were made in a factory. But how can there be room for so many factories in the world?

Right now in bed.. my duvet cover, my headboard, my bed, my dressing gown, clothes, furniture, make up, tv, curtains.. all the 1000s of items on amazon. Most will come from a factory somewhere.

But my mind gets totally blown when I think about how the universe came to exist. Ok I know sun and stars are made of gases, but how do those gases exist? Why? Why do planets exist, who made them?

I read something once along the lines of how our brains just can't comprehend something that doesn't have a start and a finish. Or that our brains are too small to comprehend the universe.

@Bellybootcut, for precisely that reason, if you dig anywhere in the churchyard surrounding a medieval church, you have a very high probability of finding human remains even if there are no grave markers. The north side of a church is likely to have the least density of burials because pre-reformation different areas were considered more holy than others (and therefore people wanted to be buried in them) - the north of the churchyard was low down the scale but even there you get burials to of people who couldn't afford to be buried elsewhere in the churchyard.

how do chameleons change colour
Ooh I know!
They shed a layer of skin.
Brown to green, then green to red, but they can't change back again until they've grown their layers of skin back so it's used sparingly.