One thing I think is cool is if you have a boat in a pool of water laden with ice, as the ice melts into the water, the water level remains the same. This is constant to any scale, so I think that's awesome. If you have anything else you think is great (like how you can cool things with a fire) then post it here, I want to find more counterintuitve/interesting things.
Things about science and nature you find interesting
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I find atoms absolutely fascinating. Such as how they react with eachother, electron shells, isotopes, ect.
Genetics, I mean it works so fucking well. It amazes me how simply elegant it is. (Yeah I know, kinda obsessed.)
Similar to the Theory of Relativity one, but a bit more specific:
Because the faster you go, the slower time goes for you, theoretically, there is a speed you can reach where time would actually appear to flow backwards to you. E.G.: Time Travel. Because of that whole "Fly 500 lightyears away, then come back" bit, which means you could go 1000 years in the future and age a day, this means you'd be able to come right back, too. Naturally, we can't actually reach these speeds, but the concept is cool.
Mainly because I'd go 1000 years into the future, swipe something cool, and come back and claim to have invented it. If your head just exploded, that's okay.
Because the faster you go, the slower time goes for you, theoretically, there is a speed you can reach where time would actually appear to flow backwards to you. E.G.: Time Travel. Because of that whole "Fly 500 lightyears away, then come back" bit, which means you could go 1000 years in the future and age a day, this means you'd be able to come right back, too. Naturally, we can't actually reach these speeds, but the concept is cool.
Mainly because I'd go 1000 years into the future, swipe something cool, and come back and claim to have invented it. If your head just exploded, that's okay.
I'm talking about "The speed of light in a vacuum is the same for all observers, regardless of their relative motion or of the motion of the source of the light."Bob_Bobbington said:
It just doesn't make sense to me.
Well time dilation is a factors is apart of that rule. All of time changes to keep the speed of light constant at high speeds.TaborMallory said:
I always though gravity was quite interesting.
Still not sure what causes it and it was as if some all powerful being thought "Okay, I have all this matter and shit everywhere, now how am I going to make this universe work?"
Bam, gravity. Bam, stars, planets, and life on Earth.
Still not sure what causes it and it was as if some all powerful being thought "Okay, I have all this matter and shit everywhere, now how am I going to make this universe work?"
Bam, gravity. Bam, stars, planets, and life on Earth.
Try picking up "The Dilbert Future", by Scott Adams. It has a section towards the end that talks about how gravity hasn't been fully explained yet, so he has a few interesting thought experiments he uses... Try to get a late edition, because it has an extra chapter after that that further explains the concepts...UsefulPlayer 1 said: