What Is The Most Incredible Scientific Fact You Have Ever Heard?

[beso]

What is the most incredible scientific fact you have ever heard?

This is mine:

The LHC accelerates a clump of protons equivalent to a teaspoon of hydrogen gas at standard atmospheric pressure and temperature to a speed where it has the same kinetic energy as a TGV train travelling at over 200 kph.

[jim360]

It may come down to a matter of interpretation. So far as I now, there hasn't been -- and never will be -- an experiment where something is literally observed to be in two places at once, but there are plenty of experiments which rely on the principle of superposition, ie that a particle can exist in multiple states at the same time, until a measurement is performed. This includes being in multiple places at once. The principle is well-tested, so now it comes down to interpretation. Is it a mathematical trick, other parallel universes interfering with our own, the wavefunction permeating space and collapsing only on a measurement?

Regardless, if you're still stuck on "what Bohr said", then it's also worth exploring the wonders of the last 90 years or so of Quantum Mechanics.

[Rev. Green]

Jim360 says ' "Electrons and protons have equal and opposite charges" has got to be quite an amazing one.'
I could live with that, but "The electron has the same charge as the sum of three quarks having 2/3, 2/3, and -1/3 of its charge" blows my mind. Perhaps there is something in the Koide formula after all, perhaps extended to include neutrinos, to indicate that electrons aren't fundamental?