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.

[Tilly2]

Penicillin kills bacteria.

[Togo]

The op is very impressive but does not tell us how long it takes or the amount of "energy" utilised to generate such force. Nothing is free...……. yet.

[tonyav]

If you drop a piece of buttered toast it always lands buttered side down.

[andy-hughes]

Male sperm wales sing to attract mates.

As the mating season progresses, all males eventually end up singing exactly the same song which they all learn from hearing it from each other, and by the end of the season, the song has changed out of all recognition from how it started, but all the males still sing the same song.

[237SJ]

That a 747 can take off - preferably with me on it!

[jno]

ducks' quacks don't echo!

[tonyav]

If you walk under a ladder you will trip over a Black cat.

[Togo]

//ducks' quacks don't echo! //

Except on AB.

[Tilly2]

Quack!

[johnny.5]

time travellers can only travel forwards in time

[Tilly2]

[I]Quack[I}

[Tilly2]

Flip!

[Peter Pedant]

some ABers ARE human ....

NO OK - Niels Bohr - I am interested in statements where the statement and its opposite are true at the same time

(wreaks havoc with logic)

or the statement that Einstein wasnt much good at maff - ( he was assigned Bose to help him)

or Moseley ( he of the street in Manch) was on the verge of describing neutrons in 1915 by considering the difference between atomic number and atomic weight - - but was killed in the trenches

[Khandro]

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

Sorry, but that isn't strictly true, and it isn't what Bohr said.

[douglas9401]

Did you mean "male sperm wails"?

[jim360]

Doesn't really matter what Bohr said, because science has moved on since his time, but just out of interest, what *is* strictly true, Khandro?

[Peter Pedant]

// but just out of interest, what *is* strictly true, Khandro?//

but it doesnt matter because Bohr was interested in both the thing and its opposite being true at the same time

[RobNorth]

Split photons that when separated affect one another, however great the distance between them.
Some fungus spores accelerate at up to 180,000g when being ejected.

[Khandro]

jim; My understanding, (which isn't profound) is that first you need to define what you mean by "particle" before you can speak of it (Bohr) or begin measurement. Then we need to reference who and where is the observer at this precise moment in time.
The common inference is, to use a simple analogy, that we can be standing next to, and looking at a snooker table and the pink ball is in both of two pockets at the same moment, and this isn't true.

[Old_Geezer]

If one could scale up the effect like that isn't the pink ball probably at every point in the universe ? Mind you, my understanding is imperfect and maybe some pink balls cancel out.