Seven Fascinating Science Facts That Will Blow Your Mind

You can never be still, you are a time traveller and much more

Everyone loves fascinating science facts, here are seven that will blow your mind.

We are destined to forever be on the move

When you are standing still, you are not actually standing still. Firstly, the Milky Way galaxy is moving through space, secondly, the solar system is orbiting the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way galaxy (our galaxy), thirdly, planet Earth is orbiting the sun, fourthly, planet Earth is rotating.

You might ponder whether if you stopped all that movement, you may be able to stand still. You couldn’t. Even if you managed to somehow by some miraculous miracle stop all of those things moving through space, you still would not be standing still. That’s because we all are always moving through time.

That means even if we somehow managed to stop ourselves from moving through space, which is impossible in itself, we still would be moving because we’d be moving through time, and we can never stop moving through time because our consciousness and everything is tied to our movement through it. So, if you ever feel like you never stop, now you know why.

We are all time travellers

The goal of a time travel machine like those we see in the movies is to alter the speed and direction through which we move through time. Such a machine may be possible to create it may not be, but a time travel machine that allows you to travel through time already exists and we already utilise it to travel through time.

As said, all of us are continuously moving through time and as we can never stop moving through time we will always be travelling through time. That means we are all time travellers, and our time travel machine is the universe, the only downside is — or upside depending on your perspective — we can only move in one direction.

Everybody has the power to look into the past

It is technically possible to travel back in time, just not in the way you think, we can only look into the past rather than travel into it, telescopes are the usual example, if you look through a telescope you’re looking into the past, but there is another example, your phone. If you take a picture on your phone, you capture a moment in time, if you then look at that picture you are immediately looking at an image of the past.

So, any time you look at pictures on your phone, you are literally looking into the past. On a sidenote, as films, TV shows, and much more are all made using images of the past, when you watch any of them you are looking at the past. Also, as our minds retain images of the past, our minds are also capable of looking into the past.

That means telescopes, our brains, cameras and much more are all magical globes that allow us to look into the past.

Your upper half is older than your lower half

Gravity is not a force, for lack of a better way of explaining it, it can be best described as the result of a curvature in time. Because time moves at a different speed at your feet than it does at your head, rather than travelling through space in a straight line, we travel at a gradient. That gradient is what creates the gravitational effect.

This means that time causes gravity. And because of the way time causes gravity, and because planet Earth is such a substantial mass when compared to us, your upper half is always older than your lower half. The difference may only be on the nanosecond level, but it exists all the same.

There is no such thing as speed per se

Speed is relative, which means it is not real, at least not in the way that we think of it. So, your speedometer in the car, the speed it gives you is not a real speed per se because without the planet Earth it cannot be measured. For example, if you continued moving at the same speed but took away planet Earth as your point of reference it would be like you were not moving at all.

That means that plane flying faster than the speed of sound, it is not actually moving either — at least not in the way we think of movement — it just seems like it is because we have planet Earth as a point of reference. Take away planet Earth and again it would be like the plane was not moving.

To put it another way, if you are hurtling towards the sun at ten thousand miles an hour, it is only because the sun is there, take away the sun and everything else, and even though your “speed” technically remains constant, it will be like you have stopped moving.

So, speed only exists when relative to other masses. Take away all points of reference and speed as we know it ceases to exist.

Speed may be relative, but acceleration is absolute and so is real as real can be

The only absolute when it comes to speed is acceleration. Only when you are accelerating is speed real, when you’re not accelerating, it is relative. The absolute proof that acceleration is real is gravity. Gravity is acceleration.

For example, if you jump out of a plane, you don’t fall to the earth, the earth accelerates into you. That’s why falling hurts so much, you are being crashed into by a planet. Einstein’s theory of relativity proved that everything is accelerating through space-time, and how fast you accelerate through space-time is based upon your mass.

So, if you jump out of a plane, because you have a much smaller mass than the planet Earth, you start accelerating through space-time at a much slower rate i.e. your rate of acceleration decreases. In a way, it is like jumping from a fast moving train right into the path of an equally fast moving train. If the trains are close enough together, you should be able to make the jump because you will retain the train’s acceleration. However, if you try to make the jump with the train too far behind you, so when you jump you lose speed, you will be in big trouble.

Another way to think about is if you jump from the ground, you don’t fall back down to the ground, the ground accelerates into you. So, when you jump your rate of acceleration through space-time reduces but planet Earth’s does not. That’s why you always hit the ground with a wallop after you jump. You are being accelerated into by planet Earth.

It is likely that we all exist because “nothing” does not

People often think that the vacuum of space is nothing, but it is not. It is space. Nothing does not exist because you know, it is nothing. And because nothing is nothing it means it cannot exist, which is why it does not exist.

Rather paradoxically this is likely why everything exists — because nothing does not. So, because nothing does not exist everything exists except nothing, and because everything exists except nothing, it means that we live in an infinite universe where every kind of something that can exist will exist everywhere forever — and all because nothing cannot exist anywhere at all ever.

That means rather crazily, you, me, everyone and everything likely only exists because of the paradox that nothing cannot and does not.

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