Interesting Facts of Physics>>> . . 1.When hydrogen burns in the air, water is formed. 2.Hawaii is moving toward Japan 10 centimetres (4 inches) every year. 3.The North Atlantic gets 2.5 centimetres (1in) wider every year. 4.Hot water freezes quicker than cold water. 5.The Atlantic Ocean grows at about the same rate as your fingernails. 6.A solar panel 100 miles by 100 miles (161x161km) in the Mojave Desert (USA) could replace all the coal now burned to generate electricity in the entire U.S. 7.Many physicists believe wormholes (a shortcut through space and time) exist all around us but they are smaller than atoms. 8.If Mount Everest were placed at the bottom of the deepest part of the ocean, its peak would still be a mile underwater. 9.The bark of the redwood tree is fireproof. 10.The lightning bolt is 3 times hotter than the sun. 11.The amount of water beneath our ground soil is 50 times as much as all the water in the rivers and lakes combined. 12.You can convert graphite into diamond by applying a temperature of 3000 Celsius and pressure of 100,000 atm. 13.The diameter of a proton is approximately 0.000000000001 mm (1/25,000,000,000,000 inch). 14.The mass of our entire atmosphere is estimated to be some 5.5 quadrillion tons (55 followed by 14 zeros). 15.The worlds densest wood, the Black Ironwood (Olea laurifolia), does not float on water and therefore sinks. 16.The Dead Sea is so dense with salt, you can easily float on it without drowning. 17.If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced just enough sound energy to heat up one cup of coffee.
Posted on: Sat, 22 Mar 2014 12:55:21 +0000
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