Q : I went back and reread the article. Turns out I was mixing a bit of information up. It doesn't help that the computer I am using (same one I read this article on) scrunches up a lot of the paragraphs and sections. Because of that, I did not see that the section I was reading about separating particular subatomic particles was not the same section as the one talking specifically about quarks. So I was reading about quarks, then I was reading about separating particles in what appeared to be the same paragraph, when they were actually separate sections of the article. That is kind of a bummer. I was excited about separation of quarks. 

Q : summon fail

ooOO Science Fact! I'll post some.

♦ The diameter of a proton is approximately 0.000000000001mm (1/25,000,000,000,000in).

♦ Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds; dogs only have about ten.

♦ There are over a million described species of insects. Some people estimate there are actually between 15 and 30 million species.

♦ A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.

♦ On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.

♦ The world's longest snake (by reliable documentation) is the reticulated python, with a maximum length of, perhaps, 30 feet.

♦ If a pinhead-size piece of the Sun were placed on Earth, one would have to stand as far as 145 kilometers (90 miles) away to be safe.

♦The density inside of neutron stars is so great, it is believed that the atoms inside of it are very tightly packed and begin to form shapes that resemble pasta. Some form flat strips like lasagna, and others resemble fusilli in spirals. It was only recently experimentally verified that this type of matter is possible, though it was first theorized 30 years ago.

♦Using a single drop of blood taken from the tail, Japanese scientists were able to successfully clone a mouse. The technology was similar to that used to clone Dolly the sheep. The mouse grew up healthy. and was able to reproduce.

Right, that's enough facts for today!

- The average number of deaths per year caused by shark attacks is less than the number of toaster related fatalities.
- The thing that makes food spicy is a compound called Capsaicin. it is found in the genus of Capsicum, which chili peppers and their relatives belong to. It causes a burning sensation when it comes into contact with mucous membrane (i.e. the inside of your nose), and your tongue is  sensitive to it, as it activates the thousands of pain receptors on your tongue. Contrary to popular belief, drinking water will not help the burning sensation go away, as Capsaicin is an oil and not water soluble. Cold milk is an effective way to treat the sensation. Capsaicin is a primary ingredient in pepper spray.

Oh Yay! More science facts  

- The speed of light is generally rounded down to 186,000 miles per second. In exact terms it is 299,792,458 m/s (metres per second – that is equal to 186,287.49 miles per second).
-  It takes 8 minutes 17 seconds for light to travel from the Sun’s surface to the Earth.

-  October 12th, 1999 was declared “The Day of Six Billion” based on United Nations projections.

- Wilhelm Rontgen won the first Nobel Prize for physics for discovering X-rays in 1895.

-  10 percent of all human beings ever born are alive at this very moment.

-  The Earth spins at 1,000 mph but it travels through space at an incredible 67,000 mph.

-  Every year over one million earthquakes shake the Earth.

-  When Krakatoa erupted in 1883, its force was so great it could be heard 4,800 kilometres away in Australia.

- The largest ever hailstone weighed over 1kg and fell in Bangladesh in 1986.

- Every second around 100 lightning bolts strike the Earth.

- Every year lightning kills 1000 people.

-  In October 1999 an Iceberg the size of London broke free from the Antarctic ice shelf .

- The air at the summit of Mount Everest, 29,029 feet is only a third as thick as the air at sea level.

-. One million, million, million, million, millionth of a second after the Big Bang the Universe was the size of a …pea.

-  DNA was first discovered in 1869 by Swiss Friedrich Mieschler.

- The molecular structure of DNA was first determined by Watson and Crick in 1953.

- The first synthetic human chromosome was constructed by US scientists in 1997.

- The thermometer was invented in 1607 by Galileo.

- Englishman Roger Bacon invented the magnifying glass in 1250.

- Alfred Nobel invented dynamite in 1866.



- The tallest tree ever was an Australian eucalyptus – In 1872 it was measured at 435 feet tall.

- Christian Barnard performed the first heart transplant in 1967 – the patient lived for 18 days.

- The wingspan of a Boeing 747 is longer than the Wright brother’s first flight.

Those fact were rather fun to read.

Cyro Xero : If you look at somebody when they yawn, you are 80% more likely to yawn too. If you are not looking at that person when they yawn, you are only 50% more likely to yawn when they yawn. 

Columbia from Bioshock Infinite is simply impossible. As the altitude will cause air sickness and you will barely have any air left. Also, you can't keep in the air unless you had lots of giant magnets on the ground.

You could of saw Saturn on the night of the Forth of July!

GamingMonkey : Sorry, but your facts are not correct. Not all would be hit with air sickness at that altitude. Just depends on the person. But people are able to adapt to prolonged exposure to higher elevations. So you could adapt to the high altitude and no longer get sick. And the magnets thing is wrong too. Oxygen technically can be affected by magnets, but not when they are in their gas state. Oxygen atoms move far too quickly to be affected by magnets in their gas state. They have to be in their solid state (frozen oxygen) to be moving slow enough to be pulled by magnets. So a bunch of magnets on the Earth would have no effect on oxygen. 

Did you know the Giza Pyramids are precisely aligned with the orion's belt.

Did you know that the African  Black Momba is the fastest snake in the entire world . They are not black appearance but they get their names from the black colour in their mouth.

Windlancer : Whoa, that is awesome! I wonder how they could think that while building it.

Okay here is a really good one. I read this in an article the other day and I think this will simply blow your minds. I was shocked when I read this. So here it is:

for every grain of sand on the planet, there are 50 times as many planets in the universe. I think that is just awesome and I felt that I should share it, and where better than the vizzed community!

So there you have it! That is my random science fact for the day!

The name of the little diamond shaped thing between your nose and your upper lip is called the philtrum or the infranasal depression.

Our Sun is very young compared to others

Our stomach can digest itself without mucus (reference from penguins of madagascar)

On average an average person produces about half a gallon of mucus in a day. (yeauuugh)

The Universe is flat.
>There are 3 different shapes the Universe may be: closed, flat, or open. Measurements by the WMAP has indeed revealed the Universe is flat.

25,000,000 of your cells have died as you read this very sentence! 
Your body makes 300,000,000,000 new cells each day.

The entire internet is stored (and delivered) using 540,000,000,000 Electrons! That  amount of Electrons weighs just about the same as one strawberry. 

275,000,000 new stars are born each day. 

The human body has to takes nearly 12 hours just to digest food.

Cyro Xero : Okay.. Did you know that Earth spins on it's axis every 23 hours, 56 minutes instead of 24 hours? That should be the Science Fun fact of the day.. or month..

Black Bot : That is why we have leap year every 4 years. If we didn't add that extra day every 4 years, our calendar would be off roughly 6 hours every year. Thinking ahead, we would be off by 24 days over a span of 100 years.