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FastFact[0] = "The word \"quark\" comes from a passage from James Joyce's Finnegan's Wake. The exact line reads, \"Three quarks for Muster Mark! Sure he hasn't got much of a bark.\"";
FastFact[1] = "Bosons were named after the Indian physicist Satyendra Bose. ";
FastFact[2] = "Quarks are never isolated and are always found as two or three quark combinations (or 5-quark combinations - check out \"Recent Discoveries\").";
FastFact[3] = "The \"Gammasphere\" seen in The Hulk is actually a particle detector at Lawrence-Berkeley National Laboratory. ";
FastFact[4] = "The flapping of a butterfly's wings in the Amazon rainforest can create a tremendous storm on the opposite face of the Earth. This phenomena is deemed the \"Butterfly Effect.\"";
FastFact[5] = "According to Dr. Farewell, every action, thought, and feeling makes an \"imprint\" on the brain that can be accessed later to reassemble the actions, thoughts, and feelings of an individual. ";
FastFact[6] = "Every atom is 99.9999 percent empty space, so human beings are mostly empty space!";
FastFact[7] = "In 56 BC, the famous Roman poet Lucretius [\"On the Nature of Things\"] compiled a poem that included the atomic theory proposed by the Greeks. Due to the unpopularity of such ideas, most poems like Lucretius' disappeared; however, luckily, one copy was unearthed and disseminated. This one copy eventually reached the scientific community in the early fifteenth century and convinced many scientists to support atomic theory. ";
FastFact[8] = "Like many scientists today, Albert Michelson, a noted physicist in the nineteenth century, proclaimed, \"\"The more important fundamental laws and facts of physical science have all been discovered, and these are so firmly established that the possibility of their ever being supplemented in consequence of new discoveries is exceedingly remote.\" Astonishingly, Einstein proposed his Theory of Special Relativity just two years later in 1905.";
FastFact[9] = "The word \"electron\" comes from the amber that Greek philosopher Thales saw attracting small, lightweight things (the concept of static electricity). The word \"amber\" in Greek is \"elektron.\"";
FastFact[10] = "Albert Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity, pubished in 1905, took twenty-five years to be proved. Imagine waiting that long to find out a grade on an assignment!";
FastFact[11] = "When Albert Einstein submitted his Special Theory of Relativity for a position as an assistant professor of mathematics in 1907, the university denied the use of this paper as his thesis. ";
FastFact[12] = "The center of gravity between the Earth and moon exposes the fact that the Earth and moon both circle around this position, which is one thousand miles under the Earth's surface. The common perception that the moon orbits the Earth is therefore false. ";
FastFact[13] = "A light year represents a distance of about six trillion miles. In order to appreciate the vast size of just our galaxy, it is significant to note that the Milky Way is 100,000 light years across. ";
FastFact[14] = "Although light takes just over eight minutes to travel from the Sun to the Earth, light within the Sun may take hundreds of years to emerge on the surface as a result of the multitude of collisions and activities that occurs in and on the Sun. ";
FastFact[15] = "Albert Einstein stated that time was the fourth dimension and that time slows down in greater gravitational fields (Theory of Relativity). Thus, the atomic clock of the National Bureau of Standards in Colorado picks up five microseconds compared to the atomic clock housed at the Royal Greenwich Observatory. ";
FastFact[16] = "Is it possible to build a perpetual motion machine? Scientists have come close, but, according to the laws of thermodynamics, a perpetual motion is inconceivable. ";
FastFact[17] = "Light can often blind one with its brightness, but light also has weight even on Earth. ";

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