Scientific facts that freak me out.

[brewer]

Quantum uncertainty trips me out.

I'll add entangled particles and spooky action. Just can't wrap my head around it.

[brewer]

1. Color is in light, not objects. I accept it, but when I first learned this it freaked me out. 

A white object reflects most wavelengths of light that  you can see with your naked eyes. Black objects absorb most of the light that hits them. So all the colors we see are the rejects from the object that the broad spectrum of light hits. Those wavelengths will be different if the back of your eye isn't like a, say, iguana.

Stop fuckin with little kids and Crayola.

[Bucky Ball]

When I say "freak me out" I mean in a good way, in a "WOW" that is neat/weird/counter intuitive way. 

1. Color is in light, not objects. I accept it, but when I first learned this it freaked me out. 

2. If you could go as fast as the speed of light from your point of view you would be standing still. 

3. Time moves slower the closer you are to earth's surface and faster the further away. There is a calculable difference say being at the top of the Burj Khalifa building vs being at the shore of Miami beach. 

4. But I just learned this last night for the first time watching a short clip of Neil deGrasse Tyson's star talk. The bottom of your tire, even when your vehicle is in motion, is moving at 0mph. The top of your tire is moving up to 2x the speed of the vehicle itself. 

5. You could fit almost 5 billion of our suns in to the sphere of the largest known star(so far) UY Scuti. 

What scientific facts freak you out in a good way?

Re #1. The range (color) in  the spectrum of light which we see reflected from the object in due to the color or physical properties of the object. An object painted black reflects that range.
SO the way you phrase #1 is misleading.

[Brian37]

When I say "freak me out" I mean in a good way, in a "WOW" that is neat/weird/counter intuitive way. 

1. Color is in light, not objects. I accept it, but when I first learned this it freaked me out. 

2. If you could go as fast as the speed of light from your point of view you would be standing still. 

3. Time moves slower the closer you are to earth's surface and faster the further away. There is a calculable difference say being at the top of the Burj Khalifa building vs being at the shore of Miami beach. 

4. But I just learned this last night for the first time watching a short clip of Neil deGrasse Tyson's star talk. The bottom of your tire, even when your vehicle is in motion, is moving at 0mph. The top of your tire is moving up to 2x the speed of the vehicle itself. 

5. You could fit almost 5 billion of our suns in to the sphere of the largest known star(so far) UY Scuti. 

What scientific facts freak you out in a good way?

Get the duct tape out and start wrapping up your head so you can find all the pieces 

To think, god created all of these things

Praise!

I love size comparisons about planets and especially stars. Our sun is puny compared to the biggest we have found so far. The big bang lead to these things, there is no evidence that a magic abracadabra being had a hand in any of this.

[Brian37]

When I say "freak me out" I mean in a good way, in a "WOW" that is neat/weird/counter intuitive way. 

1. Color is in light, not objects. I accept it, but when I first learned this it freaked me out. 

2. If you could go as fast as the speed of light from your point of view you would be standing still. 

3. Time moves slower the closer you are to earth's surface and faster the further away. There is a calculable difference say being at the top of the Burj Khalifa building vs being at the shore of Miami beach. 

4. But I just learned this last night for the first time watching a short clip of Neil deGrasse Tyson's star talk. The bottom of your tire, even when your vehicle is in motion, is moving at 0mph. The top of your tire is moving up to 2x the speed of the vehicle itself. 

5. You could fit almost 5 billion of our suns in to the sphere of the largest known star(so far) UY Scuti. 

What scientific facts freak you out in a good way?

Re #1. The range (color) in  the spectrum of light which we see reflected from the object in due to the color or physical properties of the object. An object painted black reflects that  range.
SO the way you phrase #1 is misleading.

No it is not. Atoms have no color, and molecules are made of atoms. It is the arrangement of the atoms that determines what gets absorbed and what bounces back to your eye and what bounces back to your eye is what we perceive as color.

[Brian37]

I forgot, neutrinos can pass through a solid planet without hitting anything. Why? Because they are incredibly fucking "FUCK ME" small, no not Donald Trump small, but really really really small. 

I saw Neil deGrasse Tyson describe it as as being like a baseball diamond on Cosmos, with the diamond being any given atom in the planet and the neutrino being a mere baseball between the electrons(bases) and outfield and infield and between bases being empty space.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I forgot, neutrinos can pass through a solid planet without hitting anything. Why? Because they are incredibly fucking "FUCK ME" small, no not Donald Trump small, but really really really small. 

I saw Neil deGrasse Tyson describe it as as being like a baseball diamond on Cosmos, with the diamond being any given atom in the planet and the neutrino being a mere baseball between the electrons(bases) and outfield and infield and between bases being empty space.

And the Japanese neutrino detector recently scored a hit on one.

[Anomalocaris]

Particle wave duality

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Vampire bats are a real  thing. I donated blood to one once, it was having a bad day so I did my bit. Transfer was in the right direction so I can still go out in daylight. Unlike Meatloaf.

[Jackalope]

Solid objects are mostly empty space.