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TOP 5 INTERESTING FACTS-2

 TOP INTERESTING FACTS VOLUME 2 Hey, guys, this is our second volume of facts we hope you all like it. As we said that if we get another 30 visits on volume 2 we will try to bring volume 3 of interesting facts.  1. If you are on holiday doing swimming and, suddenly you remembered that you have to post a mail. What you would you do? It might happen and we have to go to the nearest postal service. But people in Susami Bay, Japan have an underwater post box, where they can post their mails. It is under 10 meters depth from the sea level and is officially recognized as a mail collection point of Susami's postal system. It has a Guinness record for the deepest underwater post box. Susami Bay became a tourist place for this underwater post box.  2. Scientists say that lightning never strikes the same place twice but, it becomes untrue when it comes to Lake Maracaibo in Venezuela. On average 280 bolts of lightning strikes per hour, it is also called the Catatumbo lightning, beca...

TIME DILATION

TO THE FUTURE Have you ever thought of time traveling? Trying to know about your future? What will happen next? How would you look when you become old? I'm pretty sure you have. And you also might have thought that it would be practically impossible. But there was a man who once traveled through time. He is Sergei Krikalev, was a Russian astronaut, has a record of 803.371 days spent in space. He actually traveled through time to his future by 0.02 seconds. Here, what he experienced is not time traveling but time dilation.                                        TIME DILATION There are many ways to explain time dilation. It can be said as the difference between the time in two clocks, each having their individual velocity or the difference between Gravitational potential between their locations. To be put in simple words, time dilation is the process of slowing down the clocks bec...