7 Impossible Things Happening Right Now
The line between science and miracles can get very blurry sometimes.
"Nothing is impossible."
Isn't that what we tell our kids when we want them to grow up to be surgeons and lawyers, to keep us in the best retirement facilities when we're old?
Although that is something of a platitude, something that science teaches us is that a lot of the things we think are impossible are actually perfectly probable - all it takes is for us to figure it out. There was a time, around when the passenger train was invented, when people thought that travelling faster 30 miles per hour would have catastrophic, skin melting effects on the human body. Now we know that 30 miles per hour is perfectly safe and is, in fact, only a little over the top speed of Usain Bolt.
More recently, we have been told that certain laws of the universe are unassailable, fixed and absolute - only to have them broken seven different ways before breakfast and quietly swept under the rug. Some of the most well respected scientists in history - Einstein, Hawking and many others - began their careers as rule breakers, and just look at them now.
Perhaps one day in the future, we'll look at some of the more bizarre and impossible experiments happening right now, and laugh at how blindingly obvious it all is.