Did you know that dogs see the world in slow motion…
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Oh jeez, not you too Strange Mysteries? Surely you don’t believe the world is flat, do you?It’s true, and it’s not just dogs either. Animals that are smaller than humans and which possess faster metabolisms perceive time to move slower than we do, and this is due to how a creature’s nervous system processes sensory information. Do human beings have the power to heal themselves? When you imagine the vastness of space and the amazing collection of bizarre objects contained within, it seems odd that Earth should hold any sort of record at all. True dat. On a scale from the largest thing we know of, i.e. the observable universe, all the way down to the smallest thing we know of, the Planck length, humans are firmly entrenched in the larger half of that scale.
Ever since their discovery in the early 20th Century…
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we’ve learnt that they can warp time, trap light and do many other bizarre things we’re yet to explain. But now there’s a new kid on the block, the white hole, and these fellas may be even weirder.
Transdimensional portals. There I said it. Black holes have something called an event horizon, and when light or matter crosses this point they cannot return to the universe from whence they came. If traversable wormholes exist between white and black holes, some physicists believe that they should be able to alter the speed of time, and potentially even reverse it for anyone travelling through. Earlier in this video we mentioned the theory that white holes are just very old black holes, but what we failed to mention is when this takes place.
When you imagine a researcher who’s gone too deep…
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According to the World Health Organisation, one in four people will suffer from some form of mental or neurological disorder in their lifetime. Michel Siffre was another man who almost lost his mind due to research, as in 1972 he spent six months living alone in an underground Texas cave, but his work may one day help us get to Mars.
How many secrets are kept from you on a daily basis?
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If you were to take a crime count of every illegal act performed by James Bond, Fox Mulder and whatever that broad from Alias was called, I’ll bet these secret agents would have a pretty bad rap sheet. But this is just fiction, right? As genetic testing becomes ever more accessible, it can be tempting to take a peek inside their genetic code to see what’s in there. If you’re chowing down on a truck-stop burrito and you find a few cat’s eggs in there, I doubt you’ll be all that surprised. But did you know that there are certain levels of mouse poo, mould and insect larvae which are acceptable in every single food item? The saddest part of any movie is when a dog gets shot. No arguments, it’s a fact.
Human beings have a limited time here on Earth…..
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In almost every religion and every myth with creation at its heart, there exist one or more supreme beings, and whether they’re immortal hammer gods or sexy water goddesses, they all have one thing in common – they are better than you. And with afterlife myths this goes even further, because not only did they build you and create all that you know, but they also get to decide on where you go when you die.
God was a pretty heavy topic to open with, so let’s take a look at something simpler – fire. The idea of burning for all eternity in a world of fiery pits is commonly attributed to the Christian idea of Hell, but for some reason fire seems to play a role in many different after life myths, despite it being somewhat essential for cultured human beings to exist. We use fire to cook toast, to heat our homes, to light our reefers, but if you see flames after you’ve died, you’re almost certainly in a really bad place.
Another bizarre similarity between many different myths and religions is the idea that the good afterlife is located somewhere high up in the sky, whereas the bad people are sent deep underground to somewhere dark and terrible. Obviously this may have something to do with the fact that underground caves are dark and occasionally terrible, and clouds are super-duper pretty, but is this enough to explain the sheer number of religions who have adopted this idea?
The Abrahamic religions of Christianity, Islam and Judaism believe that humans are judged based on their actions during life, after which they’ll be sent to an afterlife which represents their moral purity. If you’ve kept your wiener clean, wore a hat on Thursdays or done whatever other crazy business your god asked of you, you’ll go to the good kind of afterlife. And if not you’ll go somewhere bad, forever.
In both Aztec and Norse religions, the dead move on to either a world of endless war or paradise, depending on the whims of their god or whether they died in battle. Vikings believed that half of those killed in combat would continue to fight alongside Odin after death, whereas the others get to sit in a field and get drunk with the goddess Freyja; but there’s no indication that Norse mythology used morals to determine which afterlife you got. And what’s even more bizarre is that anyone who died from boring stuff like sickness or old age would head off to Hel – that’s Hel with one L – for an eternity of dreariness and drudgery.