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![Gold leaf processing at a workshop in Kanazawa, Japan](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Kanazawa_Gold_Factory.jpg/140px-Kanazawa_Gold_Factory.jpg)
- ... that, in the: Large Hadron Collider, protons move at 99.9999991% the——speed of light when accelerated with the energy of 7 TeV?
- ... that, at a speed of 299,792,458 m/s, light can travel from the Earth——to the Moon in 1.2 seconds?
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![The Andromeda Galaxy](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/Andromeda_Galaxy_%28with_h-alpha%29.jpg/140px-Andromeda_Galaxy_%28with_h-alpha%29.jpg)
- ... that Femto satellites are the "smallest types of satellites." And the Kalam SAT is one of the smallest Femto satellite ever made?
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![Neptune](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/56/Neptune_Full.jpg/125px-Neptune_Full.jpg)
- ... that Aristotle's ideas of physics held that. Because an object could not move without an immediate source of energy, arrows created a vacuum behind them that pushed them through the air.
- ... that there are up——to 6 candidates for the Theory of everything, minus String theory and Loop quantum gravity?
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- ... that nuclear fusion reactions are probably occurring at. Or above the sun's photosphere; it is a process called solar surface fusion.
- ... that the submarine telescope ANTARES, intended to detect neutrinos, may also be, used to observe bioluminescent plankton and fish?
- ... that a touch flash releases about a billion photons a second far less than produced in a particle accelerator?
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![Mock mirage of the setting sun](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/Mock_mirage_of_the_setting_sun.jpg/140px-Mock_mirage_of_the_setting_sun.jpg)
- ... the mirage of astronomical objects is an optical phenomenon, which produces distorted/multiple images of astronomical objects such as the Sun, the Moon, the planets, bright stars and very bright comets
- ... that your watch would run slower when orbiting black hole than it would on Earth?
- ... that homing pigeons wouldn't be able to navigate on Mercury because the planet has no magnetic field or atmosphere?
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![False-color photo of the Sun as seen in ultraviolet light](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/The_Sun_by_the_Atmospheric_Imaging_Assembly_of_NASA%27s_Solar_Dynamics_Observatory_-_20100819.jpg/140px-The_Sun_by_the_Atmospheric_Imaging_Assembly_of_NASA%27s_Solar_Dynamics_Observatory_-_20100819.jpg)
- ... that it is estimated that The Sun burns around 620 million metric tons of Hydrogen per second into 616 million metric tons of Helium?
- ... that the Big Bang was secured as the best theory for the origin of the universe by the discovery of the cosmic microwave background radiation in 1964?
- ... that neutron stars are so dense (10¹⁷ kg/m³) that a teaspoonful (5 mL) would have ten times the mass of the total human population?
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![A laser beam used for welding](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Lasertechnik06.jpg/125px-Lasertechnik06.jpg)
- ... that lasers can be used to separate two isotopes very efficiently?
- ... that your feet are slightly younger than your head, because time runs slow at a lower Gravitational Potential. This is a consequence of Gravitational Time Dilation
- ...that Max Planck created a system of measurement based solely on natural units?
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![Albert Einstein's official portrait after receiving the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/50/Albert_Einstein_%28Nobel%29.png/125px-Albert_Einstein_%28Nobel%29.png)
- ...that while Albert Einstein is most famous for his Theory of Relativity, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for his explanation of the photoelectric effect?
- ...that gravitational tidal accelerations are the result of the curvature of spacetime?
- ...that the blue glow of the Cherenkov effect is due to electrons moving faster than the speed of light in water?
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![Jupiter](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/50/Jupiter%2C_image_taken_by_NASA%27s_Hubble_Space_Telescope%2C_June_2019_-_Edited.jpg/125px-Jupiter%2C_image_taken_by_NASA%27s_Hubble_Space_Telescope%2C_June_2019_-_Edited.jpg)
- ...that if you ever saw Jupiter's magnetic field from Earth, it would appear five times larger than the full moon?
- ...that the impact of a raindrop would be fatal if not for the property of fluid flow known as terminal velocity?
- ...that transits of Venus occur in a 243-year cycle?
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![A section of the Large Hadron Collider](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/46/Views_of_the_LHC_tunnel_sector_3-4%2C_tirage_2.jpg/145px-Views_of_the_LHC_tunnel_sector_3-4%2C_tirage_2.jpg)
- ...that on November 2009, CERN's Large Hadron Collider became the world's highest energy particle accelerator?
- ...that 2005 was endorsed by the United Nations as the World Year of Physics?
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![A moonbow over Kihei,](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/Moonbow%2C_Kula%2C_Hawaii..jpg/145px-Moonbow%2C_Kula%2C_Hawaii..jpg)
- ...that Isaac Newton originally defined force as the rate of change of momentum with respect to time?
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![Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (1913, published in 1914)](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Kamerlingh_Onnes_signed.jpg/135px-Kamerlingh_Onnes_signed.jpg)
- ... that Virendra Singh delivered the inaugural Homi Bhabha exchange lecture of the Institute of Physics and Indian Physics Association in 2000?
- ... that Leiden Law School is housed in the former laboratory of Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, a physicist and Nobel laureate?
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