What scientific fact blows your mind the most?
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If you'd consider this broadly points at everything "ok", I'd frigging fear your "moderately bad"
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....? .... Oooooohhh. Haha that's some fine gallows humor.
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Moderately bad would be, for example, getting stuck in the agrarian neolithic for geological time because every significant technological advance leads to a devastating social collapse that wipes it away. If farming is already a new thing to the species, why shouldn't we struggle just to keep it going at a basic level?
I mean, it did happen that way sometimes, and history was shit, but progress eventually did come. By the 20th century there was little anyone from the paleolithic would recognise in Western life, but we adapted.
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Lemmy Easter egg. Gives access to Bizzaro Lemmy. They get a mustache. That's it.
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Yes, this is what I was thinking of, thanks for filling us in.
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Neat. I know almost nothing about the the Higgs field.
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Dynamite works as wel
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OK, it's really a mathematics equivalence, rather than a scientific fact, but Euler's Identity:
e^iĻ^ + 1 = 0
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euler's_identity
it shows a profound connection between the most fundamental numbers in mathematics.
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That's most of what I understand, honestly. It also connects to the weak force somehow, and I think other fields can have the same effect in certain case.
I'm confident about the basic quantum mechanics of matter here, but I can't actually do quantum field theory, so I guess I could still be misunderstanding something. Buyer beware.
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8% coding DNA? Wow, that's quite a jump from the 2% coding and 5-10% conserved DNA that used to be cited. Full-genome sequencing has truly (metaphorically and literally) filled many gaps in the study of our genome...
