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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A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!
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Pumice is the only rock that floats on water.
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One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen!
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Iron weighs more after it rusts.
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A coal power station puts 100 times more radiation into the air than a nuclear power plant producing the same amount of energy.
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