The world is full of secrets, and even science can not explain them all. The portal provides Cosmosup.com five scientific phenomena, which can take my breath away.

5 Quantum Zeno Effect

Most have heard of the radioactive decay. There is an unstable particle, say, uranium core. Uranium nucleus is unstable, and to achieve a more stable, lower-energy state, it splits into two smaller nuclei, releasing energy during the process. This process is inevitable decay always occurs.

Or does not happen ... And here is the paradox, or quantum Zeno effect. The funny thing is that radioactive particles experiencing fear state, just like people. Joke joke, but this really strange phenomenon.

By observing the system against the degradation of their observation time virtually stopped the flow of particles, so it remains in its original state. This is similar to the child's endless shots to keep his puberty or stare at yesterday's dinner in the hope that it will not break.

4 Forces

Will not talk about the good and evil forces, we will look at the fundamental forces of the universe. Most people know two of them - gravity and electromagnetism. However, there are two more - the weak interaction and the strong interaction.

So what these forces are unusual? In particular, the interaction takes place between particles that are exchanged between the so-called force carrying particles. Stranger still is the fact that these particles are pronounced as they are there for a limited time. Each force has its own force vector particles. Each of these particles is a specific weight, usually measured in electron volts.

And the most interesting thing is that these particles helps to explain why some powers, such as weak interaction and the strong interaction, the range is very short, while others, such as gravity and electromagnetism, the range is endless.

Basically, the higher the virtual force vector particle mass, the more energy is needed to make it there without prejudice to the energy and mass conservation law. This means that the force vector particles with mass greater, there is less than particles with mass less.

Forces of gravity and electromagnetism case, the force vector particles are massless and move at light speed, which means that the operating range is endless.

3 Dimensions

Turning his head to try to understand the principle of the animated motion picture? Do not worry, you're not alone. In fact, no man can see what's going on, because the image is moving higher dimension than we realize.

Imagine a coordinate system and the x and y axes. These two axes intersect at right angles. And now let's try to draw a Z axis - perpendicular to both of them. We get a space. Now let's try to draw another axis perpendicular to the x, y and z axes. Again, turning his head?

This thought experiment we just did is actually quite old. In higher dimensions of existence does not matter physicists have long been dormant, but only recently started on the opportunity to talk seriously.

In fact, in the majority of string theory (the main candidate to explain the theory of everything "title) versions of the proper functioning of the need for a higher dimension.

Other higher-dimensional feature, which we have seen science fiction films, is that it can operate in a higher dimension than the shortest distance between two points in our three-dimensional spacetime.

An appropriate analogy would be. Imagine the apple worm who wants to get to the other side of the apple. It can slither apple surface, in which case it moves in two dimensions, up and down or back and forth. Or he could move the third dimension - gnaw through the apple. Having chosen the second route, the worm reaches the same point journeying shorter distance.

2 Quantum entanglement

One of the few theories of physics, unchanged over the past 100 years is the maximum possible speed in the universe is the speed of light. Where it by while its speed is always the same, and nothing is faster than light.

Or maybe it is. Like most things in quantum physics, quantum entanglement challenges our images of what is possible. The main example is the quantum of entanglement of two electron interaction. Usually one pair of electrons is the electron spin in the opposite direction than the other (in fact, they do not rotate, it's just an analogy). Discovery of an electron spin direction, just to say that the next spin of the electron is the opposite.

Everything is very simple and clear, if not for the fact that a typical electron interaction regardless of what the distance between them.

They may be different sides of the universe, and yet this information is available instantly. This is the information from the other side of the universe can be obtained faster than light is coming from! This is somewhat surprising, despite the fact that at the moment it is not clear what can be applied to this information....

1 Quantum Foam

Another school explained to us that space is a vacuum, and the vacuum is void, meaning the space is empty. In fact, this is true, but because as already mentioned, quantum physics still want to stand out, it appeared a phenomenon called the quantum foam.

Looking at this scale the Planck length (1.61619926 × 10-35 m - is the minimum possible length of the universe), space-time is starting to look like an overdose of LSD hallucination. Literally before the eyes begin to jump images takes millionth of a second, and out.

Black hole, the hole spacetime (ironically called wormholes scientists, by analogy with the apple and worm), the particles and their anti-matter analogues resulting from nowhere, facing each other and disappearing, the seeds of the universe (probably sometime between this result and our universe).

It turns out that achieving the Planck length scale uncertainty principle allows the energy to spontaneously turn into particles and antiparticles equivalents.