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.

I wonder about the first person making breaded chicken and why they decided that it would be a great idea to roll the chicken breast in it's own baby before adding the breadcrumbs?
That's always had me thinking.

No Sneaky, all the things but peas as they are little.. All fruit and veg, how can it be grown so quickly in such massive quantities?
Growing up we had a greenhouse, no instant salad there, took forever with loads of TLC for a couple of cucumbers.

Accents. When we began to speak words as we know them, why did we end up with accents???

Why?? Why do Scottish people sound different to people from Cornwall? I need to understand this.

It baffles me 🤷🏼‍♀️

I always wonder about herbivores too, especially big ones like giraffes and elephants. How can leaves etc make such a huge beast. Do the animals ever feel like trying something new? Like I have had enough leaves, I might try fish tomorrow. How do they know what is the right food for them?
Also, how and why are we just going on about our daily lives on a big ball floating around in space. The thought that something random like an inflatable unicorn exists on a planet is just strange.
Also, the hairdressing Industry. The cutting and styling of dead cells growing out of your head is a multi million pound industry just freaks me out.

Mathematically, there are different sizes of infinity.

It’s true, but I don’t begin to understand it!

Radio / WiFi. So much information just flying about invisibly that turns into sound/visuals/data if you have the equipment to access it. I understand the science, but still find it mind boggling

All of the above! Plus X-Rays. I just don't get it. And radiation. How does it make you ill? 🤷🏼‍♀️

@TurtleTree now you've got me thinking about the internet and the digitalisation of music, images, film, on demand tv, on demand iPhone stuff, I can call anyone, anywhere from pretty much anything. The power and capabilities of a smart Phone

How the fuck does this all happen? The change in my lifetime is astonishing. My phone can do a million times more everything than every single bit of technology in our entire house when I was a teenager.

Then I flip back to how do grooves in a record = music?

@Florries what would you use electricity on a desert island for? It's not like you'd have a toaster to plug in or bread to put in it? 😀
You'd be luck to arrive with both phone AND charger.

Ears. I don't understand how a single membrane vibrating can produce the sound of an orchestra. How does that work? The same goes for a speaker with a paper cone. It doesn't seem feasible.

Most of these questions can be answered by any decent science textbook. Or by Google.

Maybe we all Sims in the SIMs computer games & that's why everything works 🤣

Are all Sims

Most of these questions can be answered by any decent science textbook. Or by Google.

It’s not about explanations; it’s the phenomena themselves that boggle.

My mind boggler came from DH (he has that effect on me!

Since the beginning of time, there is a finite amount of matter, so what we have is what we have and matter will never get any bigger or smaller. Nothing disappears or diminishes even if it seems like it might.

Which I find comforting, because it reminds me my DH1, Dad, Mum and Dbro are still here and could be floating around in the atmosphere I'm breathing right now, not up in some unknown cold lonely place, but right here with me. Well that's what I keep telling myself.

I was watching a documentary about a rain forest tribe once and they was filming them making a drink of some sort - think their version of beer. They smashed up some root or something in a big bowl and strained the juice out and let it ferment etc, but before that the women all took a handful, chewed it for a bit and then spat it back in the bowl as somehow they had discovered that it fermented quicker and better if they did that. Would love to know the story of how that came about.

As a child, I used to dwell on scientific things for hours. I loved Usborne "how things work" books, but they always had highly simplified explanations, so my mind tended to fill in the gaps.

I remember the surprise of learning about why certain things happen which we take for granted: such as what goes up must come down; surely that's obvious? Nope, we need "gravity", without it, everything would float around.

Also my mind was blown that we can hear what direction sounds come from; I spent many hours pondering this after a primary school experiment, where I had to point at the sound of someone clapping. I couldn't see because I was blindfolded, but I was amazed that I could hear where the sound was. But then I had to do it with one ear covered, not so easy! (I also pondered at length why I couldn't see the pattern on the scarf tied over my eyes.)

Music itself baffled me. I mean, who decided that one particular note would sound good after another. And how in different parts of the work, some music sounds terrible to our ears but is the number one hit where they are! Why do I love some music and not other? Why do do you love different music to me? Head battered!

*world

If shorts are called shorts then why aren't trousers called longs?

Why are oranges called oranges but bananas aren't called yellows?

You have finger tips but not toe tips. Yet you tip toe but can't tip finger.

I think the colour orange came from the fruit, so there was no such thing as the colour orange until orange fruits came about.

Milking cows surely came from the idea that cows feeding their calves must be the same as breastfeeding a baby.

Hairdressing is a multimillion pound industry because appearance is a massively important thing for humans so will always be a money maker.

I do agree with the accent thing though. Just wtf? How can people living 30-60 minutes away from each other speak so differently?

It's really amazing to me that every single human and animal are born into the world purely by chance!
I don't know how many hundreds/thousands of eggs a woman carries, but if our particular egg wasn't fertilised at exactly the right point in time, then another egg could've been fertilised, and another human could've 'taken our place' in the world so to speak, which would eventually lead to their offspring being different to who we would've created, and so on and so on.

And the only reason our eggs are in existence in the first place (as a pp mentioned, already in our mothers ovaries when they're born!) is because God knows how many hundreds of thousands of our Ancestors got together (by chance), had sex (again with particular eggs being fertilised) and played a part in creating our Great Great Grandparents, Great Grandparents, Grandparents, Parents, and then us!

It's also amazing to think how so many more thousands/millions more people my children are blood related to than I am.

Not only are they blood related to me, they are also related to their fathers Ancestors, which obviously I'm not. And in turn, any Grandchildren I may have will be blood related to even more people than my daughters are, because of the Ancestors they will have on their Father's ancestry line.
Wow, that was a mouthful, I hope I made sense!

giant structures, like bridges and skyscrapers. How do the engineers know how to design them so they don't fall down?

xmastinseltown omg yes! That is a mind boggle! We all have to be distantly related to each other really. You could have been my great great great great grandmother's sister's great great great great daughter.