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Awarenergy @Awarenergy

Nothing has ever been found of irreducible complexity

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The first Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded in 1901 to Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen for the discovery of X-rays
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The largest naturally occurring atom in the Universe is Uranium, which has a nucleus containing 92 protons and 146 neutrons. However, 90% of the atoms in the Universe are hydrogen, the simplest atom with just 1 proton in its nucleus
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When a neutrino interacts with matter, something they rarely do, it can either continue as a neutrino or create a charged particle: the electron neutrino would create an electron, the muon neutrino a muon, and the tau neutrino a tau lepton
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The first successful mathematical framework to combine quantum mechanics and Special Relativity was the relativistic wave equation for the electron, formulated by Paul Dirac in 1928
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Every second, our Sun fuses in its core 620 million metric tons of hydrogen to produce 606 million metric tons of helium, with the missing mass being converted into energy as per E=mc²
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Isaac Newton (1643 - 1727), an English mathematician, physicist, and astronomer, thought that time exists independently of change. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646 - 1716), a German mathematician, philosopher, and scientist, believed that time is meaningless without change
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Io, the innermost of Jupiter's largest moons, is constantly stretched and compressed by Jupiter's immense gravitational pull. This tidal flexing generates enough heat to power hundreds of active volcanoes, making Io the most volcanically active world in the Solar System
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The light that started travelling across the universe when it became transparent 300,000 years after the Big Bang is the Cosmic Microwave Background radiation, originally gamma rays, but now red-shifted to microwaves due to the expansion of the Universe
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If time began at the Big Bang, then there is no "before", so nothing could have existed before. Modern theories, however, leave open possibilities, such as earlier phases of the Universe, different notions of time, or a deeper timeless reality
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Because Earth’s rotation axis is angled 23.5°to the Sun, between the 20th and 23rd of December, the region around the Arctic Circle receives no sunlight at all, while the Antarctic Circle gets 24 hours of sunlight
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Nucleocosmochronology is used to determine the age of our Sun (4.57±0.02 billion years) by comparing the observed ratios of abundances of heavy radioactive and stable nuclides to the primordial ratios predicted by nucleosynthesis theory
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Of the over 420 confirmed moons in the Solar System, we have successfully landed spacecrafts on two of them: Earth's Moon (384 thousand km away) and Saturn’s Titan (1200 million km away)
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Hydrogen and Helium are by far the most abundant elements in the Universe. The rest of the elements in the periodic table account for just 2% of the total mass of the ordinary matter in the Universe
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Schrödinger's equation does not predict the exact location of a quantum particle. Instead, it describes how the probability of finding the particle at different locations evolves over time
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Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity showed that space and time are not independent quantities. Because measurements of space depend on time and vice versa, they are best described as components of a unified entity called spacetime
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In the 1920s, Edwin Hubble provided the first conclusive evidence that the spiral nebulae seen through telescopes were actually distant galaxies beyond the Milky Way
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Nine billion years after the Big Bang, a young star built from hydrogen and helium gas mixed with ash from dead stars took shape, ignited nuclear fusion, and… our Sun was born
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The record for the longest space dive is held by American computer scientist Alan Eustace, who fell over 42 km in 4 minutes and 27 seconds, breaking the speed of sound on his descent to the surface of Earth
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Nuclear fusion in the Sun produces only electron neutrinos, but during their journey to Earth, they oscillate between flavours and by the time they reach detectors on Earth, they are a mixture of all three types; electron, muon, and tau neutrinos
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Iapetus, the third largest moon orbiting Saturn, has an equatorial ridge 1,300 km long, 20 km wide and up to 13 km high. How this massive structure formed is a mystery
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