• Question: what is your favourite science fact?

    Asked by I DONT CARE BOUT U to Stu, Rob, Euan on 16 Jun 2016.
    • Photo: Rob Stanley

      Rob Stanley answered on 16 Jun 2016:

      There are 80,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (67 zeros) ways to shuffle a deck of 52 cards (that’s 52x51x50x49x…). That’s more atoms than in the Earth. And means that if you properly shuffle a deck of cards, there’s basically zero chance that another deck of cards has ever been in that order.

    • Photo: Euan Allen

      Euan Allen answered on 19 Jun 2016:

      My favourite fact is that we are mostly made of nothing. The atoms that we are made of have a nucleus in the middle containing protons and neutrons, and then have electrons flying around the outside. The thing is, the electrons actually fly quite far away from the nucleus, meaning that most of the atom is actually just the space in between, which is made up of nothing.

      If we took all the humans in the world, and compressed the atoms to remove all this free space, then EVERYBODY in the entire world would fit into a space the size of a sugar cube! I think this is just crazy.

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