Greatest Facts
- You are made of stardust.
- No. of bacterial cells in you is ten times the number of human cells.
- The Fourier Transform. Example: Every sound is a sum of pure tones (of single frequencies added).
- The universe is simply particles and the forces that govern their interactions.
- Abstract concept of information and concrete concept of energy are fundamentally connected.
- Organisms are in fact only carriers used by genes to self-perpetuate.
- An electron in a material is completely delocalized.
- Virtual particles are in fact as good as real particles. That is, everything is a model.
- 1 = 0.99999….
- The clumped distribution of matter in the universe is due to random quantum fluctuations at the Big Bang.
- Cytochrome-C, an essential complex in the respiration pathway, also triggers cell death, or apoptosis.
Favorite Organisms
- Japanese honeybee
- Marine flatworms – Penis fencing
- Naked-Mole Rat
- Nudibranch – Mollucs that lost their shell, spectacularly colourful.
- Polar bears
- Pufferfish (specifically Tetraodontidae Torquigener)
- Tardigrades
- Wood frog