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Strong
12-11-2009, 03:05 PM
Article: Telegraph - The 10 Weirdest Physics Facts (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/6546462/The-10-weirdest-physics-facts-from-relativity-to-quantum-physics.html)


If the Sun were made of bananas, it would be just as hot
All the matter that makes up the human race could fit in a sugar cube
Events in the future can affect what happened in the past
Almost all of the Universe is missing
Things can travel faster than light; and light doesn’t always travel very fast
There are an infinite number of mes writing this, and an infinite number of yous reading it
Black holes aren’t black
The fundamental description of the universe does not account for a past, present or future
A particle here can affect one on the other side of the universe, instantaneously
The faster you move, the heavier you get
Halo
12-11-2009, 04:39 PM
The faster you move, the heavier you get

Probably why sprinters don't run really, really far.

Can you tell I failed my physics?
:sqembarrassed:
Zap
12-11-2009, 04:45 PM
Events in the future can affect what happened in the past

Time and Anti-time?
Atom
12-11-2009, 06:31 PM
(...) Things can travel faster than light (...)This is not actually true in general, as the statement suggests. It is only slowed down light that things can travel faster than.
ewomack
12-11-2009, 09:43 PM
http://xmb.stuffucanuse.com/xmb/viewthread.php?action=attachment&tid=4468&pid=17495
Strong
13-11-2009, 07:00 AM
This is not actually true in general, as the statement suggests. It is only slowed down light that things can travel faster than.

Yeah, they were playing silly buggers with the speed of light, but I thought you might be interested to know about the effect of the absolute zero temperature thing and it's effect on even light.
Strong
13-11-2009, 07:03 AM
Time and Anti-time?

Well every particle is suppose to have it's opposite, so why not gravity or even time. There could be an anti-Zap somewhere asking the opposite question right now.
Atom
13-11-2009, 07:13 AM
Yeah, they were playing silly buggers with the speed of light, but I thought you might be interested to know about the effect of the absolute zero temperature thing and it's effect on even light.I only read a couple of them, oops. I'll read the rest right after I have a coffee, they actually all look rather interesting.
Halo
13-11-2009, 04:20 PM
Well every particle is suppose to have it's opposite, so why not gravity or even time. There could be an anti-Zap somewhere asking the opposite question right now.
Would that person be called Paz?



I only read a couple of them, oops. I'll read the rest right after I have a coffee, they actually all look rather interesting.
There's definitely an Anti-Atom out there. :sqrofl:
Atom
13-11-2009, 07:40 PM
(...)There's definitely an Anti-Atom out there. :sqrofl:I wonder if when I die he will too.
Atom
13-11-2009, 07:43 PM
Do you think I should have used a comma after die? Tell the truth.
Atom
13-11-2009, 07:44 PM
I can handle it.
Atom
13-11-2009, 08:10 PM
Hey, if I am going to accept that my ancestors are dang apes then I think I can handle a little grammar critique, go for it. I should have used one, say it, go ahead, I can take it.
Atom
13-11-2009, 08:18 PM
Ok well I better get up there and read the rest of those alleged facts, I ain't done that yet, forgot what thread I was in, there, for a minute. lol
Atom
13-11-2009, 08:26 PM
Oh I probably didn't need that third comma, but, to hell with it and the likes thereof I say. Ok going up to read now.

Jeez I raked leaves and pine needles all day today. I feel like I been run over with a school bus full of hippies.
Atom
13-11-2009, 08:29 PM
I even wonder whether that fourth one was really necessary, damn this blasted language.
Halo
13-11-2009, 08:36 PM
Do you think I should have used a comma after die? Tell the truth.
Not necessary, but if commas were to be added I would've stuck em in here:
"I wonder if, when I die, he will too" pausing for dramatic effect.


I wonder if when I die he will too.
The 2 of you could merge and create a black whole, red dwarf, or fuzzy gas nebula. :3smile:
Atom
13-11-2009, 08:49 PM
Not necessary, but if commas were to be added I would've stuck em in here:
"I wonder if, when I die, he will too" pausing for dramatic effect. Ok that does sound better, thank you, dude.


The 2 of you could merge and create a black whole, red dwarf, or fuzzy gas nebula. :3smile:I'm not racist or prejudiced or anything like that but the fuzzy thing does sound kinda fun, despite the potentially noxious gas. lol
Cryren8972
14-11-2009, 09:00 AM
Oh I probably didn't need that third comma, but, to hell with it and the likes thereof I say. Ok going up to read now.

Jeez I raked leaves and pine needles all day today. I feel like I been run over with a school bus full of hippies.

Muddy's been after you again, hasn't he?
Atom
14-11-2009, 10:30 AM
Muddy's been after you again, hasn't he?No. I think I have OCD, lol.
pctec
14-11-2009, 11:08 AM
All the matter that makes up the human race could fit in a sugar cube


That explains a theory that I have that basically says a lot of people have absolutely no substance...
Strong
14-11-2009, 11:27 AM
Well small doesn't mean none, but yeah we need more character building activities in our lives. :sqlaugh:
ewomack
15-11-2009, 10:03 AM
...and we will all be reduced to sugar cubes given the new global diet... but it would have to be refined and processed sugar... corn syrup... how much corn syrup can fit into humanity?
Strong
15-11-2009, 01:40 PM
With lubrication? :sqconfused:
ewomack
16-11-2009, 07:50 PM
Sex sex sex... all the time... sex... the boy thinks about nothing else!!!

HUMPH!!!
Muddy
16-11-2009, 11:56 PM
Sex sex sex... all the time... sex... the boy thinks about nothing else!!!

HUMP!!!

Pffft.
Cryren8972
17-11-2009, 05:53 AM
Hallelujah!
Strong
17-11-2009, 06:08 AM
Sex sex sex... all the time... sex... the boy thinks about nothing else!!!

HUMPH!!!

Isn't that what physics boils down to. No, wait! I'm getting my sciences all mixed up, I don't know if we are talking biology or chemistry here!

Sorry, excuse the interruption, I'm off to think about sex for a while, that seems so much easier. :sqconfused:
Cryren8972
17-11-2009, 07:38 AM
Especially since you're in the buff...
Strong
17-11-2009, 09:05 AM
I was hoping you would raise that issue between us.
Cryren8972
17-11-2009, 09:06 AM
Well, I did.
Now what?
Strong
17-11-2009, 09:24 AM
Ah! Slip of the fingers, I meant to type the word 'not' in that sentence somewhere! :sqembarrassed:
Cryren8972
17-11-2009, 09:26 AM
Ah! Slip of the fingers, I meant to type the word 'not' in that sentence somewhere! :sqembarrassed:

Are you flip flopping on me? :sqlaugh:
Strong
17-11-2009, 09:29 AM
Genuine typing error. I think too fast for my short, stubby little fingers to keep up. Sorry!
Cryren8972
17-11-2009, 09:49 AM
It's quite alright Strong...I'll forgive you.
This time
Don't let it happen again, OK?
Strong
17-11-2009, 11:49 AM
Understood fair lady. I am suitably chastised.
Cryren8972
17-11-2009, 12:27 PM
That was way too easy...