In 1999, Harvard physicist Lene Hau was able to slow down light to 17 meters per second and in 2001, was able to stop light completely.
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For a high school science fair project, 17-year-old Michio Kaku built a particle accelerator in his parent's garage that was able to generate a magnetic field 20,000 times greater than the Earth's and produce collisions powerful enough to create antimatter.
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4.5 pounds of sunlight strike the Earth each day.
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Research indicates that plants grow healthier when they are stroked.
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A cubic yard of air weighs about 2 pounds at sea level.
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The most expensive material on the planet is antimatter - worth $62.5 trillion per gram.
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Approximately 70 percent of the earth is covered by water. Only 1 percent of this water is drinkable.
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The earth is approx. 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
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