What Is The Most Incredible Scientific Fact You Have Ever Heard?

[beso]

What is the most incredible scientific fact you have ever heard?

This is mine:

The LHC accelerates a clump of protons equivalent to a teaspoon of hydrogen gas at standard atmospheric pressure and temperature to a speed where it has the same kinetic energy as a TGV train travelling at over 200 kph.

[Guilbert53]

I think it is that a thermos flask keeps hot things hot and cold things cold.

How does it know!

[nescio]

Guilbert,
it does not need to know. All it does is greatly reduces the rate at which heat travels through the walls: inwards if it contains something cold and outwards if hot

[maggiebee]

If I'm at the top of a hill and kick a ball it will roll downwards.

[Bazile]

nescio- guilbert wasn't being serious :-)
At least , i don't think he was

[Buenchico]

>>> What is the most incredible scientific fact you have ever heard?

Possibly this one:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-43674270

[Arksided]

The world isn't flat... allegedly.

[kvalidir]

I love Guilbert, he's da man :)

[Quoi]

that a typical teenage male has about 20,000 calories stored as fat and available as energy for day to day activities.
An overweight person may have over 100,000 calories stored in fat cells.
3,500 calories used equals 1 lb of weight loss - thats why losing weight is hard and takes time.
You didnt say the fact had to be 100% accurate did you?

[ToraToraTora]

I remember being absolutely gobsmacked when I found out that almost all matter is almost entirely empty space.

[ToraToraTora]

David Beckham turned up at training with a thermos, fergie said: "Hi Dave what's that", "boss, it's a thermos, keeps hot things hot and cold things cold" - "sounds great, what have you got in there?" - "2 choc ices and a coffee"!

[jim360]

"Electrons and protons have equal and opposite charges" has got to be quite an amazing one. There is (to date) literally no known reason why this should be the case. It just is.

[Khandro]

jim; It is known to some, and for thousands of years, as Tao.

[jim360]

Sure.

[goodgoalie]

A teaspoon of neutron star material would weigh about 10 million tons

[douglas9401]

Would that not bend the spoon?

[Khandro]

jim; I'd like to amplify last night's post. Early in his recommendable book; Tao, the Watercourse Way Alan Watts says; "At the very roots of Chinese thinking and feeling there lies the principle of polarity, which is not to be confused with the ideas of opposition or conflict. In the metaphors of other cultures, light is at war with darkness, life with death, good with evil and the positive with the negative, and thus an idealism to cultivate the former and be rid of the latter flourishes throughout much of the World.

To the Chinese way of thinking, this is as incomprehensible as an electric current without both positive and negative poles, for polarity is the principle that + and -, north and south, are different aspects of one and the same system, and the disappearance of either one of them would be the disappearance of the system."

[jim360]

K

[Old_Geezer]

Boltzmann constant ?

[jim360]

Nah, that would be k

[Bazile]

That a particle can exist in more than one place at the same time- i.e. the same particle