Physics Facts & Trivia
The mass of our entire atmosphere is estimated to be some 5.5 quadrillion tons (55 followed by 14 zeros). The diameter of a proton is approximately 0.000000000001 mm (1/25,000,000,000,000 inch). Sciensational.com
The amount of water beneath our ground soil is 50 times as much as all the water in the rivers and lakes combined. Sciensational.com The first ten feet of the ocean hold as much heat as the Earth's entire atmosphere.
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On average, our bodies constantly resist an atmospheric pressure of about 1 kilogram per square inch.
If given the same mass, our body would actually be hotter than the sun.
The Atlantic Ocean grows at about the same rate as your fingernails. 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. The average ice berg weighs 20,000,000 tons. |
The effect of Relativity made Astronaut Sergei Avdeyev a fraction of a second younger upon his return to Earth after 747 days in space. 
The Dead Sea is so dense with salt, you can easily float on it without drowning. 
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The world's densest wood, the Black Ironwood (Olea laurifolia), does not float on water and therefore sinks. 
You can convert graphite into diamond by applying a temperature of 3000 Celsius and pressure of 100,000 atm. 
The lightning bolt is 3 times hotter than the sun. 
The deepest location on Earth is Mariana Trench, about 11km deep in the North Pacific ocean. 
The bark of the redwood tree is fireproof. 
If Mount Everest were placed at the bottom of the deepest part of the ocean, its peak would still be a mile underwater. 
Many physicists believe wormholes (a "shortcut" through space and time) exist all around us but they are smaller than atoms. 
A solar panel 100 miles by 100 miles (161x161km) in the Mojave Desert (