Fundamental Problems

Here is a very abbreviated list of unsolved problems in physics:

Is the theory of cosmic inflation correct?
Why is the distant universe so homogeneous when [naturalistic theories] seem to predict larger measurable anisotropies of the night sky than those observed?
Can gravitational waves be directly detected?
Why is there far more matter than antimatter in the observable universe?
What is the identity of dark matter? Is it a particle? Is it the lightest super-particle? Do the phenomena attributed to dark matter point not to some form of matter but actually to an extension of gravity?
Do black holes produce thermal radiation, as expected on theoretical grounds?
Does nature have more than four spacetime dimensions?
Are there non-local phenomena in quantum physics?
Is the proton fundamentally stable? Or does it decay with a finite lifetime as predicted by some extensions to the standard model?
Why is the Sun's Corona (atmosphere layer) so much hotter than the Sun's surface?
Why is the observed energy of satellites flying by Earth sometimes different by a minute amount from the value predicted by theory?
What is the exact mechanism by which an implosion of a dying star becomes an explosion?
What is the solution to the Schrödinger equation for the hydrogen atom in arbitrary electric and magnetic fields?
What causes the emission of short bursts of light from imploding bubbles in a liquid when excited by sound?
Is it possible to make a theoretical model to describe the statistics of a turbulent flow?
What is the origin of homochirality?

I am very thankful to be living in a time where information is accessible, dispersible, and available.  Information, though, is not science.  Science is deduction, inference, formulation, designing of experiments, and testing hypothesis with statistical and mathematical analysis.  In fact, these very questions listed above are simply ‘information’ I got from – you guessed it – Wikipedia!  Science, like intuition, cannot be ‘googled,’ however.  Yet even in this age of scientific advancement and precision, where we get angry if our search engines do not produce at least 2 million hits in less than 500 milliseconds and if we miss one section of a revolving door (as opposed to our great-grandparents, who didn’t worry too much if they missed the weekly newspaper or monthly train), we must remember science, and information, are not supreme.  Information, and even deducing true and accurate information through science, is subsidiary to wisdom.  Information answers the “What” questions of life, but wisdom answers “What to do with the answers to the ‘What’ questions!” 

“In [Christ] are hidden all the treasures of knowledge and wisdom.” (Col. 2:3)