Mind. Blown.

[Arseface]

Photons can be in two places at the same time.

At the same time.

 

[SelfAppointedGunslinger]

Really?

 

[Arseface]

Yup. It's all to do with quantum mechanics. They shot a single photon through a slit, and they noticed that it still acted as though it was being interfered with by other photons. The conclusion was that the photon was interfering with itself, and to do that it had to be in several different places at the same time.

If you have time, I recommend the documentary How Long is a Piece of String. It goes through all that.

 

[SelfAppointedGunslinger]

Remarkable stuff, funny how I was never really into physics at school but now I can't get enough when it comes to documentaries about them. I think for Me learning about science is more of a hobby than an academic thing, I seem to find the documentaries much easier to understand than I ever did teachers :lol:.

 

[Arseface]

I really understand what you mean. I would never have been able to do physics in high school, what with having to learn all the maths, etc, but I still love learning about it.

 

[HeroOfCrapsalot]

The sun consumes it own mass at a rate of 5 million tons per second.

That Spanish lady is gonna be pretty damn upset when she hears this.

 

[cheezMcNASTY]

Spoiler

 

[D3m190d]

Spoiler

Well, in just one sentence: ''Electric currents or more generally, moving electric charges create magnetic fields.'' -Wikipedia

I thought everyone knew that.

 

[Firis]

Well, in just one sentence: ''Electric currents or more generally, moving electric charges create magnetic fields.'' -Wikipedia

I thought everyone knew that.

Not ICP or BrokenCYDE :3

 

[TRA Rotid]

And remember kids, you can all become Black Holes one day. You just need to figure out how to squeeze yourself into the size of an atom.

 

[Arseface]

But Black Holes evaporate.

 

[Skotekal]

WAT

ARSEFACE ASPLAIN SIR

 

[Arseface]

Well, they used to think that Black Holes didn't let anything escape, and therefore would exist infinitely. But Stephen Hawking discovered that they "evaporate" because of Hawking Radiation. You see, virtual pairs of particles are being created all over the universe, one with a positive mass, and one with a negative mass. They usually annihilate on each other before they have a chance to do anything, but for the ones being created on the edge of the event horizon of a black hole, they don't. The gravity is so strong there that the particle with negative mass gets sucked in, reducing the black hole's mass, whilst the positive mass particle escapes. Eventually the mass will get so low that it will esplode.

 

[D3m190d]

Well, they used to think that Black Holes didn't let anything escape, and therefore would exist infinitely. But Stephen Hawking discovered that they "evaporate" because of Hawking Radiation. You see, virtual pairs of particles are being created all over the universe, one with a positive mass, and one with a negative mass. They usually annihilate on each other before they have a chance to do anything, but for the ones being created on the edge of the event horizon of a black hole, they don't. The gravity is so strong there that the particle with negative mass gets sucked in, reducing the black hole's mass, whilst the positive mass particle escapes. Eventually the mass will get so low that it will esplode.

Confirmed.

 

[Skotekal]

Well, that is some hardcore stuff right thar.

 

[currupted]

I heard they were planning to send people to mars to colonize it but because of the fuel it takes they can't ever come back : src="http://projectego.net/forums/images/smilies/01/hmm.gif" data-smilie="yes">
might not be true though heard about it a while back...

 

[Tyloric]

I believe this is the best thread we have ever made.

Ever.

 

[Drew2686]

I once had a thought:

What if your lifetime is simply the dream of someone/thing? So they go to sleep, dream your entire life story, then you die as they wake up for their next day. Weird.

And now back to your regularly scheduled solar fact: The sun releases so much energy that, every second, the core releases the equivalent of 100 billion nuclear bombs.

Das alotta boom!

 

[Aions]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wg1fs6vp9Ok

just watch it

 

[cheezMcNASTY]

the moon is not made of cheese.
it is made of cheez.