Deep Thought is the name of the supercomputer in Douglas Adams' science fiction novel A Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. This supercomputer had been built by an intelligent species to get an answer to the intriguing question of the meaning of life, the universe and all the rest. When the supercomputer spit out the answer “42” after several million years of computing time, the commissioners were dissatisfied and had an even bigger computer built to better understand the question posed. Consequently, deep-thought.org deals with the fundamental questions about life, the universe and all the rest. In our German mother tongue, the term Welträtsel has become established for these fundamental issues of our understanding of the world, which we use for the German edition welträtsel.org.
Welträtsel (engl. 'Grand Enigmas') represent the fundamental questions that remain still unresolved in mankind's understanding of the world. Where does life come from? How arises consciousness in the brain? What is the true nature of time?
So far, science fails to give answers to many of those fundamental questions. Even worse, scientists have withdrawn themselves from the grand enigmas in favour of a multitude of lesser relevant problems. It seems that only some individuals outside the scientific community are still thinking about these fundamental issues. The authors of this website count themselves among those few. We want to draw attention to these grand enigmas again, ideally to put them back on the scientific agenda. There are plenty of mysteries that are still unravelled.Beyond that, we want to draw attention to contradictions and anomalies in the established scientific theories. We suspect that the keys to a better understanding of the world can be found there.
We believe that we can make a contribution to solving some of the grand enigmas and unravelled mysteries. To do this, we use a range of self-developed approaches that we designed to systematically examine problems and identify possible solutions. Over time, we will present these approaches on deep-though.org and apply them to unsolved scientific questions
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On this website, we present many ideas and new approaches for many different branches of science that you will not find anywhere else. Our publication here makes them available to you for further use. However, this does not mean that we relinquish our intellectual authorship and copyright. Just as we, for our part, name the sources on which we have built upon, we expect you to refer to us as intellectual source. Each article here names the author(s) and the publication date, possibly also a version reference, which we use for important content revisions. Please use this information and the URL of the respective article when citing.
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The editors
"Welträtsel"
The German term 'Welträtsel' (engl. 'grand enigmas') goes back to a controversy among scholars in the late 19th century. They debated animously whether science will be capable of clarifying the fundamental questions of our understanding of the world.
The Origin of Life
The question of where the first life came from is one of the seven Welträtsel described by Emil du Bois-Reymond in 1880. Werner Ahrendt substantiates his assumption that the first forms of life originated on the seabed.
Stone Rows at Carnac
The stone rows of Carnac are a well-known tourist attraction in Brittany. But what was the primary purpose of this Stone Age monument?
Saisonality of Respiratory Infections
Respiratory infections are most common during winter months. Why is this the case?
Oddities in the Theories of Physics
Most laypeople admire physics for the insights that famous individuals such as Galileo Galilei, Isaac Newton, and Albert Einstein have provided. Physics has also gained great recognition among philosophers of science, whose approach has often been recommended to other scientific disciplines for imitation. On closer inspection, however, the state of knowledge in physics is not so good.
Business Concepts – an Introduction
Anyone who wants to start a new business is confronted with a variety of different questions. These range from very pragmatic questions such as “What do I have to do to formally set up a company and e.g. open a bank account for it?” to fundamental questions such as “Is my idea any good? Does it already exist?”, "How big is my market?" and ”Given my idea, which competitors am I actually up against?” And, and, and ... The list of questions goes on and on. But before I embark on the “adventure” of setting up a company with a new business, I should first develop as detailed an understanding as possible of what I'm getting myself into. The three-realms/four-perspective model presented below can be used to systematically assess the viability of a business.
In vendo veritas: Think Different!
It is not only in wine (“in vino veritas”) that there is sometimes a grain of truth. Even in advertising (“vendo” in Latin) there is sometimes an important kernel of truth that is worth thinking about more closely.
They are all Crazy, aren't they?
Do amateur researchers mainly spread nonsense or can they contribute to the progress of science?
