What is the weirdest science fact you know?

I kid you not, last night i mumbled to my dad sleeping next to me ( i was half asleep) about how plants respond to changes in gravimetric potentials and if the stuff is bound to happen if we consider it from a quantum gravitational point of view, like passing it through a theoretically proposed brane/ wormhole , maybe not just a plant, a living cell in general. How would the reflexes act when subjected to change in spacetime? ( on a second clear thought, i could just have asked about the effect of time dilation on a living cell .. e.g. by accelerating it to very large speeds).

Dad is a scientist. He told me to stfu or else he will whoop my ass.

Next morning he told me that it has been theoretically proposed that time dilation has a slowing down effect (the famous twin paradox) on the ageing of cells and time in general. Relatively large speeds tend to slow down time, so maybe the cellular metabolic cycls of the plant cell might get slowed down and the kinetics/ energetics though remaining constant, have different rate constants. Thats all we know for now. Please excuse the rant, i just thought i should share!

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