True facts you can't get yourself to believe

[The_Waspman]

Well, I love the whole quantum mechanics thing and also the whole 'there are different levels of infinity' thing (which I can kinda wrap my head around), but one fact which I frequently tell people that they don't believe is that the actual physical matter that exists in a human body can be compressed to the size of a grain of salt.

 

[isometry]

A true fact I have hard time believing is that artists went for 1000s of years before discovering how to paint and draw with 3D perspective.

 

[artanis_neravar]

That if the height of a single step on a flight is 2mm different to the rest, 80% of people will trip on it.

I cant bring myself to believe that we are that uncoordinated as a species...

Remember though, humans can't even sleep standing up. 2 legged locomotion is extremely unstable to begin with and walking for humans is really just a series of coordinated falls. Given that, I don't think it's too surprising that changing the required method of walking in an amount that humans can't really perceive would cause them to trip.


Also, fuck science. Pluto is a planet. I don't care about classification I just love the little guy

It's not walking it's falling in style?

OT:
People believe that the world is flat
People actually believe the Michael Jackson is dead, I mean come he obvious goes by Lady Gaga now
That the smallest level know particles is really made up of rubber ducks

 

[artanis_neravar]

Well, I love the whole quantum mechanics thing and also the whole 'there are different levels of infinity' thing (which I can kinda wrap my head around), but one fact which I frequently tell people that they don't believe is that the actual physical matter that exists in a human body can be compressed to the size of a grain of salt.

My chemistry teacher refused to believe that objects with zero(0) volume must have zero(0) mass

 

[dvd_72]

I find it difficult to believe that the universe has no edge.
....
HOW??

Think of the surface of a sphere. Every point is equally regarded as the center, and there is no edge.

In the fact, the boundary of any shape has no edges. Boundaries have no boundaries.

So you mean the universe exists as an edge, so to speak? That's kind of... hard to wrap my head around.

Right, space is a 3D "edge" of 4D spacetime. A better term might be "slices", like the layers of an onion. Each point in time corresponds to on slice/layer of space.

Ah yes, 4D spacetime. I forgot about that. I guess the problem with the edge is that we intuitively understand it in the framework of 3 dimensional space, with an edge being 2 dimensional. Thanks for clearing that up, it makes a lot more sense now!

 

[soes757]

Super position. How can something be in more than one place at the same time? And how does observation change where it is? Are the particles camera shy or something? I just can't wrap my head around it.

quantum mechanics are not for the sane to understand

also superposition is one word

That's why I'm beginning to understand them.
I'm with you on superposition.
That the poor vote republican.
Oh, and that there was a second Bioshock game.

 

[JJMUG]

I was going to say the whole "we eat spiders a few times a year when we are asleep" but I pretty sure that is not concrete true fact.
So I guess I go with Pluto is in fact a planet! I just feel that denining it's a planet at all, it's a like a big screw you to the Greek who discover it in the first place and Hades himself.

Greeks didn't discover pluto, it was too small and far away for them to see, it was only discover in 1930, and was a 11 year old came up with the name, as Pluto is also the name of a god of the underworld, who could turn invisible, the point being that the planet is hard to see.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluto#Demise_of_Planet_X

Its more complicated then that. In fact it was discovered in 1978 by Clyed W. Tombaugh.

 

[dvd_72]

That the smallest level know particles is really made up of rubber ducks

I'm sorry what? I mean, I'm not a fan of string theory, but that sounds like it's just taking the piss. How in the name of all that is mad in this world could you believe something as bizarre as that without, you know, trying to ruin peoples faith in humanity?

 

[the Dept of Science]

There are thousands of species of snail but there is one species of dog.

 

[artanis_neravar]

That the smallest level know particles is really made up of rubber ducks

I'm sorry what? I mean, I'm not a fan of string theory, but that sounds like it's just taking the piss. How in the name of all that is mad in this world could you believe something as bizarre as that without, you know, trying to ruin peoples faith in humanity?

Well if theoretical physicists can do it why can't I?

 

[Agow95]

I was going to say the whole "we eat spiders a few times a year when we are asleep" but I pretty sure that is not concrete true fact.
So I guess I go with Pluto is in fact a planet! I just feel that denining it's a planet at all, it's a like a big screw you to the Greek who discover it in the first place and Hades himself.

Greeks didn't discover pluto, it was too small and far away for them to see, it was only discover in 1930, and was a 11 year old came up with the name, as Pluto is also the name of a god of the underworld, who could turn invisible, the point being that the planet is hard to see.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluto#Demise_of_Planet_X

Its more complicated then that. In fact it was discovered in 1978 by Clyed W. Tombaugh.

Actually it was Pluto's moon Charon (the largest) that was discovered in 1978. It says so on the same page and section you gave me, I think you misread it, it said: In 1978, the discovery of Pluto's Moon Charon allowed the measurement of Pluto's mass for the first time.

 

[dvd_72]

That the smallest level know particles is really made up of rubber ducks

I'm sorry what? I mean, I'm not a fan of string theory, but that sounds like it's just taking the piss. How in the name of all that is mad in this world could you believe something as bizarre as that without, you know, trying to ruin peoples faith in humanity?

Well if theoretical physicists can do it why can't I?

You have to spend many years studying the nature of the universe before you can just start making stuff up. You need the proper credentials!

 

[soes757]

You have to spend many years studying the nature of the universe before you can just start making stuff up. You need the proper credentials!

Credentials to make shit up?
Sure man, sure. Takes years to learn to make crap up.

 

[Durgiun]

That there are people out there who would ban porn. Makes me want to twat 'em in the mush with a big, floppy, purple dildo-bat.

 

[JJMUG]

I was going to say the whole "we eat spiders a few times a year when we are asleep" but I pretty sure that is not concrete true fact.
So I guess I go with Pluto is in fact a planet! I just feel that denining it's a planet at all, it's a like a big screw you to the Greek who discover it in the first place and Hades himself.

Greeks didn't discover pluto, it was too small and far away for them to see, it was only discover in 1930, and was a 11 year old came up with the name, as Pluto is also the name of a god of the underworld, who could turn invisible, the point being that the planet is hard to see.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluto#Demise_of_Planet_X

Its more complicated then that. In fact it was discovered in 1978 by Clyed W. Tombaugh.

Actually it was Pluto's moon Charon (the largest) that was discovered in 1978. It says so on the same page and section you gave me, I think you misread it, it said: In 1978, the discovery of Pluto's Moon Charon allowed the measurement of Pluto's mass for the first time.

"With the new figures added in, the discrepancies, and with them the need for a Planet X, vanished.[52] Today, the majority of scientists agree that Planet X, as Lowell defined it, does not exist.[53] Lowell had made a prediction of Planet X's position in 1915 that was fairly close to Pluto's position at that time; Ernest W. Brown concluded almost immediately that this was a coincidence,[54] a view still held today.[52"

I was going by this about the discovery by Lowell.
http://www.phys-astro.sonoma.edu/people/faculty/tenn/asphistory/1994.html

 

[dvd_72]

You have to spend many years studying the nature of the universe before you can just start making stuff up. You need the proper credentials!

Credentials to make shit up?
Sure man, sure. Takes years to learn to make crap up.

You misunderstand. It's not the ability to make stuff up. Anyone can do that. It's the right to make stuff up, and the backing to make it half believable!

 

[soes757]

You have to spend many years studying the nature of the universe before you can just start making stuff up. You need the proper credentials!

Credentials to make shit up?
Sure man, sure. Takes years to learn to make crap up.

You misunderstand. It's not the ability to make stuff up. Anyone can do that. It's the right to make stuff up, and the backing to make it half believable!

Why is it not believable that the smallest particles are rubber ducks?
Prove it wrong!

 

[Latinidiot]

Isnt pluto technically a planet, its just called a dwarf planet.

Also the fact that Spongebob is a childrens show, seriously how did they think naming someone mr krabs who lives in bikini bottom child appropriate.

Dude, I've known that show for years, and never have I made that connection. No one I know has made that connection. I think it's not something you realise as a child.

 

[BiscuitTrouser]

You can fit the ENTIREITY of humanity into a match box if you removed ALL the space (up to one plank) from between all the neutrons and electrons and crushed them all together into LITERALLY solid matter. It would also be a black hole. To scale an atom is pretty much ENTIRELY empty space. The reason when you smash a brick with your fist the emoty space doesnt bend or move is because the repulsion between atoms and nucleus's and electrons is THAT strong when in the BILLIONS that you cant push against it. How cool is that.

 

[dvd_72]

You have to spend many years studying the nature of the universe before you can just start making stuff up. You need the proper credentials!

Credentials to make shit up?
Sure man, sure. Takes years to learn to make crap up.

You misunderstand. It's not the ability to make stuff up. Anyone can do that. It's the right to make stuff up, and the backing to make it half believable!

Why is it not believable that the smallest particles are rubber ducks?
Prove it wrong!

But the burden of proof is on you. Besides, the maths shows that the universe is actually made out of .... wait.... quarks... quacks...quacks come from ducks...

Please accept my humblest apologies. It seems the universe is indeed made out of ducks, just not rubber ones. Rather it is made out of conceptual eight dimensional inverse hyper ducks floating around a big ball of wibbly wobbly timey wimey stuff.