new game...all about facts

[jewelrox1]

since weve been playing lots of fun games on this forum..i decided to start another game..this one is not very complicated...im going to start by naming a fact...then, i state a noun...you must then find an interesting fact about that noun...then, you state a word that you want someone else to find sumthing about...

FACT- Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the phobia of long words ...(imagine being told you have Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia when ur terrified of the word itself)!

new word to find a cool fact about - goggles

 

[baltimoron]

Researchers are developing an evidence-detection system that would, with the aid of a flashing lamp and a pair of modified 3-D video game goggles, make organic substances such as semen and hair appear to blink, allowing investigators to locate potential evidence more quickly.

String Theory

 

[sharkdiver00]

The fundamental particles of the universe that physicists have identified—electrons, neutrinos, quarks, and so on—are the "letters" of all matter. Just like their linguistic counterparts, they appear to have no further internal substructure. String theory proclaims otherwise. According to string theory, if we could examine these particles with even greater precision—a precision many orders of magnitude beyond our present technological capacity—we would find that each is not pointlike but instead consists of a tiny, one-dimensional loop. Like an infinitely thin rubber band, each particle contains a vibrating, oscillating, dancing filament that physicists have named a string.

If we try to illustrate this essential idea of string theory by starting with an ordinary piece of matter, an apple, and repeatedly magnifying its structure to reveal its ingredients on ever smaller scales. String theory adds the new microscopic layer of a vibrating loop to the previously known progression from atoms through protons, neutrons, electrons, and quarks.

Although it is by no means obvious, this simple replacement of point-particle material constituents with strings resolves the incompatibility between quantum mechanics and general relativity (which, as currently formulated, cannot both be right). String theory thereby unravels the central Gordian knot of contemporary theoretical physics. This is a tremendous achievement, but it is only part of the reason string theory has generated such excitement.

Agarophobia

 

[baltimoron]

I am pretty sure you meant Agoraphobia...

I know that Agoraphobia has the root Agora which was the biiiiiiig market in Central Athens. It was huge and bustling. Phobos is another root for to fear, putting the two together would make a linguistic combination of "being afraid of the Agora", but it means nowadays having an aversion to interacting with society.

Trichotillomania

 

[sharkdiver00]

tks baltimoron, yes it was my bad typo... I'll let the next person deal with your new word.

 

[DandyDon]

What is this, the great Google Search Race?

 

[sb_diver]

Trichotillomania is defined as recurrent pulling out of one's hair, resulting in noticeable hair loss, which is not due to another medical condition.


next word: monkeys

 

[tiggrr]

Monkeys are social creatures, always living in groups with other monkeys. Monkeys groom each other for hours. Monkey grooming is about so much more than just a good hair day. When monkeys groom each other, they are also nourishing friendships, comforting each other, and patching up disagreements. They must love each other!
Humans and monkeys share 1.4% of their DNA!

television

 

[DeepDog]

Invented in 1948 by Luis Parker, a vengeful Nazi scientist whose intent was to prevail by dumbing down America by beaming stupid rays into their brains. The plan backfired and ultimately affected the entire world.

millennium

 

[love2godeep]

Invented in 1948 by Luis Parker, a vengeful Nazi scientist whose intent was to prevail by dumbing down America by beaming stupid rays into their brains. The plan backfired and ultimately affected the entire world.

millennium

My sources tell me that television was invented in 1927. Other than that, you're right on.

Millennium - 1000 years when the world will return to its pre-genesis state of lifelessness, other than the devil and his cohorts who will be bound for 1000 years with no one to harass. Perhaps they will watch television reruns. That will surely be a fitting way for them to spend their incarceration.

apocalypsis