Facts that shocked you
Discussion
A few.
The Holocaust. I was probably around eleven and off school sick watching daytime TV. I am not sure if it was a program for schools or perhaps an episode of The World at War. It was about the liberation of the death camps. There was footage of dead bodies piled up and the survivors in rags (just skin and bone). I knew the Germans were the “bad” guys but had had no idea of the evil they had perpetrated. I think my faith in humanity took a fatal hit that day and has never really recovered.
That light can be both a wave and a particle and that the same applies to other particles like electrons. The double slit single electron interference pattern still blows mind.
Special and general relativity and how time isn’t constant for all observers.
That the observable universe is only a (most likely) tiny part of the whole universe and that every day the observable universe gets “smaller” as the accelerating expansion of the universe means that light from the furthest stars and galaxies will never reach us.
The unimaginable scale of the universe. Even the bit we can see.
That there were an estimated 50 million to 100 million native Americans before the Europeans arrived (about a quarter to half the population of Europe at that time).
That you are not just you. In terms of number of cells we contain more “non” human cells (eg bacteria but also parasites) than human cells. We even have cells from our mothers.
The Holocaust. I was probably around eleven and off school sick watching daytime TV. I am not sure if it was a program for schools or perhaps an episode of The World at War. It was about the liberation of the death camps. There was footage of dead bodies piled up and the survivors in rags (just skin and bone). I knew the Germans were the “bad” guys but had had no idea of the evil they had perpetrated. I think my faith in humanity took a fatal hit that day and has never really recovered.
That light can be both a wave and a particle and that the same applies to other particles like electrons. The double slit single electron interference pattern still blows mind.
Special and general relativity and how time isn’t constant for all observers.
That the observable universe is only a (most likely) tiny part of the whole universe and that every day the observable universe gets “smaller” as the accelerating expansion of the universe means that light from the furthest stars and galaxies will never reach us.
The unimaginable scale of the universe. Even the bit we can see.
That there were an estimated 50 million to 100 million native Americans before the Europeans arrived (about a quarter to half the population of Europe at that time).
That you are not just you. In terms of number of cells we contain more “non” human cells (eg bacteria but also parasites) than human cells. We even have cells from our mothers.
TwigtheWonderkid said:
Stephen Lewis, the actor who played Blakey in On The Buses, was 43 when they made the first episode and 47 when they made the last. And 10 years younger than Butler (Reg Varney).
Wilfred Bramble was 49 when he played Steptoe (Steptoe and Son). He looked about 80!
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