5 WTF's That Came From The Science World!

The science world isn't all amazing, life-changing inventions and world-shaping discoveries, sometimes the science world can get a bit crazy and hilarious! Listed below are 5 WTF's and crazy theories that came straight and fresh out of the science world!

1. Isaac Newton (The "Gravity Guy" and the "Father of Calculus") Invented The Dog/Cat Door!

Sir Isaac Newton invented the first known cat door/dog door! While he was in his attic trying to conduct light experiments, his cat kept nudging the door open and letting the light in, spoiling his experiments. So he decided to just cut a small hole, big enough for his cat to fit through, right in his door. He attached a flap on it so that the light couldn't get in!

2. Scientists came up with a theory that we are living in one, giant black hole!

Some scientists say that those star-sized vacuum cleaners that shred planets and stars apart atom by atom, can likely be holding another universe...every single one of them. In fact, they even think that our universe is inside of one, gigantic black hole right now! If this is true, it sheds light on how big the whole heavens might just be! Bigger than we have ever imagined. But for scientists to truely see if this theory isn't false, they would have to travel right through a black hole! Which doesn't seem very smart since they'll just disintegrate and stretched apart...

3. The theory of evolution

The part where the family tree of every living creature on the face of the Earth joins together at a single point on a single day in the past, making you related to every single insect/spider you've ever killed and even the old man across the street!

4. Lamb's growing from the ground

The ancient Greeks were the first people to have the crazy idea that a lamb could actually grow right out of the ground, with a stem attached to its navel. Pliny the Elder later mentioned it, and Europeans picked up the idea again in the 14th century.

This is the exceedingly strange legend of the Vegetable Lamb of Tartary.

Now, these people were well aware of where lambs came from. They were baby sheep that came out of mommy sheep. Or a stork drops it off. Or whatever. But their story may have arisen out of the first Western accounts of cotton plants, which an ancient Greek by the name of Megasthenes found in India, referring to them as “trees on which wool grows.”

Then boom! People start thinking that lambs can grow out of the ground.

5. Life on the sun

The sun is such a violent ball of energy that if you look at it from Earth, it'll burn your eyeballs right out of your head. But in the 1700s, when telescope-aided astronomy was still a young discipline, some thought the sun to be a regular old terrestrial body covered by a “resplendent surface.”

It was only a matter of time before someone came along and argued extensively that life could exist there. That dubious honor fell on the discoverer of Uranus, William Herschel. Sunspots, he said, were atmospheric openings providing glimpses of the sun’s surface, or in fact mountains poking above the cloud layer. And according to Herschel, on that surface, like the surfaces of all the other planets, there existed life.

He wasn’t alone in his speculation of life elsewhere in the solar system. Herschel was working in a telescope-fueled era of intense interest in what creatures might populate other worlds. And it’s an interest that continues to this day.