Top 10 Astonishing Facts about Physics
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Physics is the science that deals with mechanics, nature, material, space, time, motion, energy and force. It is one of the oldest departments of science. Physics has changed the modern day society with the development of phones, TVs, computers, nuclear weapons, and domestic day to day appliances. It is the most interesting branch of science. Following are some interesting facts about physics,
- Light travels at the speed of 300,000,000 meters/second. Nothing can travel faster than light. Theory of special relativity states that the faster you travel, the slower time gets.
- Water can boil and freeze at the same time. It is known as triple point which occurs when the temperature and the pressure is right for the three phases (gas, liquid and solid) of a substance to coexist in thermodynamic equilibrium.
- Lasers can be trapped in waterfall. This phenomenon takes places due to total internal reflection.
- An egg looks like a jellyfish underwater. A cracked egg, when is placed 18 meters below the surface level in water, has apressure 2.8 times more and it holds together as a jellyfish.
- When a black hole sucks a star, then a huge jet of plasma is burped out, spanning hundreds of years.
- One single solar fire ball releases equal energy to that of millions of 100-megaton atomic bombs.
- When a ball is thrown towards the ground then it experiences a free fall but if you spin the ball then the ball flies due to the magnus effect. It occurs when the air is on the front of a spinning object along the same direction, so when it spins it flies as it gets dragged along.
- Albert Einstein not only discovered the theory of relativity but also invented the refrigerator with his fellow colleague Leo Szilard.
- Isaac Newton not only formulated the law of gravity but also invented the cat flap.
- Light travels from the Earth to the Moon in just 1.25 seconds.
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