Wonders of Science

Amazing Scientific Facts

●The number of stars in the universe is more than the words ever uttered by all the humans who ever lived.

●We did not come into existence from outside the world, we grew out of it. Seen this way, science can help us feel connected to the world. As Elizabeth Johnson once wrote, “Out of the Big Bang, the stars; out of the stardust, the Earth; out of the Earth, single-celled living creatures; out of evolutionary life and death of these creatures, human beings with consciousness and freedom.

●Have you wondered about the depth of the ocean? The ocean is 12,080.7 feet (3,682.2 meters) deep, on an average. This is equivalent to 8 times the empire state building.

●Someone who weighs 68 kgs on Earth would weigh 11 kgs on the Moon because the Moon’s gravity is a sixth of what it is on Earth.

●A human organ has been hiding in plain sight all this while. It is called the mesentery. It performs important functions ranging from helping the heart to aiding the immune system.

●It takes up to 40,000 years for a photon to travel from the core of the sun to its surface, but only a mere 8 minutes to travel the rest of the way to Earth.

●The Great Barrier Reef is the largest living structure on Earth stretching up to 2000 kilometres.

●An average person walks the equivalent of five times around the Earth, in his entire lifetime.

●One cannot taste food without saliva.

●Do you know what 20/20 vision means? It just means that your vision is normal. For vision less than this, corrective lenses are used to restore the vision back to normal.The lens in optics is a piece of glass or other transparent substance that is used to form an image of an object by focusing rays of light from the object.