Humans have puzzled over PHYSICS - the behavior of matter - for
hundreds of years. How do light and sound travel? Why do some materials
break? What is magnetism? Over time, we have found out many things
about the nature of of our world - but many secrets of physics still
lie waiting to be discovered.
Find out why...
- When you walk to the west the Earth spins faster
- You weigh less when the Moon is overhead
- Light travels a million times faster than sound
- There are only six colours in the rainbow
- Mirrors don't reverse left and right
- A hair is wider than a million atoms
- Iron will become magnetic if it is struck by lightning
- A car uses about half its fuel to overcome wind resisitance
- When glass breaks, the cracks move at 1.5 km per second
- Diamonds are the hardest objects in the world
- Ice skaters skate on water
- Nothing can be colder than -273 °C