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Old 09-09-2012, 02:53 AM   #25
Madaya
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Default Re: Post your science questions here!

What wierds me is this.
Jump in your Ford (after all, this is what the Forum is really about - thanks to the 'owners for letting us play)..start it up, press the accelerator and whether it is a Festiva or a FPV, you get pressed back in the seat a bit.
Light (a photon), gets emitted from an atom (and understand, the computer screen, room, every article in the vicinity, either in visible light, UV, IR, radio wave or whatever, even your own self) is emitting trillions of photons every second, some of which enter your eye and get translated into something that enables you to read the very words that you are reading right now - the brain works all this out somehow, and get this...
A car accelerates from zero to 100kph in several seconds, you get a nice push in the back. A photon accelerates from 'nothing - i.e. not zero to 1,074,325,550 kph in no time at all.
Mind blowing - trillions of them - every second.
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