black hole sun; won't you come?
Alejandro Guijarro photographs the chalkboards of some of the brightest minds in quantum physics for his continuing series Momentum. He went to research facilities like CERN and many of the top universities in the world to find them.
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Have to catch up on my tumblr uploading. Got this of the moon a few nights ago.
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soldering is SUPER hard when you have heat-induced anxiety
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i guess the real question is how can you not like tesla
he thought women would eventually rule the world because we’re the dominant sex
he liked pigeons
he was a vegetarian
he was a babe
he was shy
he hated edison
he’s perfect
Yup, as long as you’re ok with that time he went bonkers and tried to build a death ray.
Don’t we all want to build a death ray?
I want to build a death ray…
Are you serious the death ray was the best part
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so i’m readin’ up on dat String Theory
y’know… The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene
and i’m like, WHAT, why am i not a theoretical/particle physicist
what even is biology when there’s a so-called “theory of everything” to study
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just kidding though, i love biology
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but seriously
general relativity and the standard model are immiscible because 1) relativity applies to the fabric of spacetime on an extremely massive scale at extremely fast speed, and 2) the standard model — which is further restricted by the uncertainty principle— does not incorporate gravity
i mean, seriously though!!!
the “components” of particles in pre-string-theory physics are different—different “information”, different “stuff”
but STRING THEORY
I MEAN, REALLY, GUYS
to infer that there are tiny strings
that resonate vibrational patterns—
that not only make up matter/mass and non-matter/information
BUT also make sense energetically (E=mc^2, see?? )
AND gravity is included because mass is proportional to gravity: the warping of spacetime
have you EVER seen a more elegant, and graceful theory?
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i mean, besides the theory of evolution, obviously
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BUT HAVE YOU???
The fact that your username is heythereuniverse makes it sound like a love letter to the cosmos
You Wish Your Neurons Were This Pretty
When Greg Dunn finished his Ph.D. in neuroscience at Penn in 2011, he bought himself a sensory deprivation tank as a graduation present. The gift marked a major life transition, from the world of science to a life of meditation and art.
Now a full-time artist living in Philadelphia, Dunn says he was inspired in his grad-student days by the spare beauty of neurons treated with certain stains. The Golgi stain, for example, will turn one or two neurons black against a golden background. ”It has this Zen quality to it that really appealed to me,” Dunn said.
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Time-lapse light photography by Caleb Charland
- Atomic Model, 2008
- Helix with matchsticks, 2005
- Bouncing pen light, 2008
- Cube with Ruler and Penlight, 2007
- Fifteen Hours, 2006
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Science Ink: A Taxonomy of Tattoos Inspired by Science
As a proud owner of a science tattoo, these articles always make me cheese.
A few years ago—by accident, really—Carl Zimmer became the de facto curator of science-based body art. The author of The Loom blog over at DISCOVER as well as numerous books, Zimmer asked his readers about their tattoos, and whether any of them had inked themselves up in science-inspired motifs. The response was greater than he imagined.
Those responses, which often arrived in Zimmer’s inbox in the form of images, have now been compiled into a book published earlier this month, . In it, the science obsessed—or at least those enthusiastic enough to etch their favorite equations, diagrams, schematics, and formulas directly onto their dermises—show off their needlework in a coffee table-worthy collection of pics, arranged by Zimmer into categories centered on major scientific disciplines: math, chemistry, neuroscience, evolutionary biology, astronomy, and a dedicated chapter on DNA.
From those pages we’ve pulled a few of our favorite works—from Darwin’s finches to a Dali-like double helix to a front-to-back neural net—and collected them here. Click through the link above to see some of our favorite science-derived ink from the collection.
Be sure to check out the book, which you can read more on here.
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How big is infinity?
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Noooooooo!!! :)
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Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer (Father of the atomic bomb)
Truly the face of a haunted man.
I always have really complicated thoughts about the Manhattan Project, but mostly it just makes me sad. It’s an interesting thing to study, that’s for sure.
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Alan Turing with two colleagues at the Ferranti Mark I computer (1951)
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Monster Black Holes Grow Surprisingly Fast
Giant black holes are famous for their appetites, but these matter-munching monsters are even greedier than scientists once thought, a new study suggests.
Image: This image depicts three hot blobs of matter orbiting a black hole. If placed in our Solar System, this black hole would appear like a dark abyss spread out nearly as wide as Mercury’s orbit. And the three blobs (each as large as the Sun) would be as far out as Jupiter. They orbit the black hole in a lightning-quick 20,000 miles per second, over a tenth of the speed of light. Credit: NASA/Dana Berry, SkyWorks Digital
The supermassive black holes that lurk at the center of most (if not all) galaxies are growing surprisingly quickly, the study found. The result implies that these cosmic behemoths are sustained primarily by frequent small meals rather than rare and dramatic galactic mergers, as was previously believed.
Supermassive black holes are almost incomprehensibly huge, with some containing 10 billion or more times the mass of our own sun. The research team used computer simulations to investigate how such black holes grow, especially in spiral galaxies like the Earth’s Milky Way.
Here a ferrofluid climbs a spiral steel structure sitting on an electromagnet. Magnetic field lines emanating from the sculpture’s edges tend to push the ferrofluid out into long spikes—part of the normal field instability—but surface tension resists. The short, somewhat squat spikes we see are the balance struck between these opposing forces. Though known for their wild appearance, ferrofluids appear many in common applications, including hard drives, speakers, and MRI contrast agents. Researchers have also recently suggested they might help understand the behavior of the multiverse. (Photo credit: P. Davis et al.)
Ferrofluids will never stop fascinating me.
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