Wardnath said:
Zero to the zero power = 1.
O SHI, what have I done?!
No it's not. It's undefined. 0[sup]0[/sup]=0/0, which is undefined.
If you're going to have your mind blown, at least get it blown by something which is true.
EDIT: Apparently there is some mathematical consensus that it's useful to have 0^0=1. My mistake. But it's a debatable point, as it can be shown that 0^0 can take on different values when the limit is taken in functions. Explained
here.
Wardnath said:
The density of the planet Saturn is less than that of water.
Meaning that if you put it in an ocean big enough, it would float.
It's made of gas, a lot of gas. It would only "float" inasmuch as our atmosphere is "floating" above the ocean.
But if you're thinking about planetary WTFs, the hurricane that is the Eye of Jupiter is large enough to engulf the entire earth.
The source of all life on earth is ball of gas so massive it is constantly undergoing nuclear explosions; destroying its own particles and turning matter into energy which provides us with the energy for life.
Volcanoes were the source of water on earth.
All the roads in the United States put end to end are more than long enough to wrap around the sun's equator. And the sun is this big compared to earth:
And our sun is only a medium sized star. Compare to some other stars in the universe:
Starts at 0:15
Stars are tiny pinpricks of light in this vast universe. We are so much smaller than that, it's ridiculous. And we're made up of cells significantly smaller. And they're made of molecules, which are made of atoms, which are made of elementary particles, which are made of quarks. At a subatomic level, we need an entirely different physics than the classical model we're used to.
Quantum physics blows my mind, more than anything else. Even knowing that we're less than one 10[sup]75[/sup]th of the universe's mass. And that matter as we know it is only a small fraction of the universe, both in volume and energy.
The idea that particles can exist in multiple places simultaneously... is troubling. The idea of atoms as concrete building blocks for reality is comforting, but false. It's energy fields that hold everything together. You are a woven quantity of protons and neutrons held together by electrons orbiting in probability fields.
So ultimately, I guess thinking about the nature of reality is what really blows my mind. Multidimensional, indefinite, reality. Where particles move across space where they literally cannot pass through. Where time is just another dimension, but dimensions can be curled inside of others.