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wnycradiolab:

staceythinx:

Artist Nike Savvas transforms mathematic formulas into beautiful sculptures.

Oh yes.

(Reblogged from etsy)
ledecorquejadore: Layers of pattern and color are typical of Moroccan design. Here we see mosaic zellij Moroccan tiling on the lower part of the walls with a different border. The upper part of the walls are covered in sculpted geps or plaster of paris. (via Bohemian Decor and Design)

ledecorquejadore:

Layers of pattern and color are typical of Moroccan design.

Here we see mosaic zellij Moroccan tiling on the lower part of the walls with a different border.

The upper part of the walls are covered in sculpted geps or plaster of paris. (via Bohemian Decor and Design)

(Reblogged from dynamicafrica)
scienceisbeauty: Bilayer graphene grown by depositing carbon atoms from methane gas. Source (UCSB College of Engineering) View high resolution

scienceisbeauty:

Bilayer graphene grown by depositing carbon atoms from methane gas.

Source (UCSB College of Engineering)

(Reblogged from scienceisbeauty)

Bring me the sunset in a cup by Emily Dickinson

starange:

Bring me the sunset in a cup,
Reckon the morning’s flagons up
And say how many Dew,
Tell me how far the morning leaps —
Tell me what time the weaver sleeps
Who spun the breadth of blue!

Write me how many notes there be
In the new Robin’s ecstasy
Among astonished boughs —
How many trips the Tortoise makes —
How many cups the Bee partakes,
The Debauchee of Dews!

Also, who laid the Rainbow’s piers,
Also, who leads the docile spheres
By withes of supple blue?
Whose fingers string the stalactite —
Who counts the wampum of the night
To see that none is due?

Who built this little Alban House
And shut the windows down so close
My spirit cannot see?
Who’ll let me out some gala day
With implements to fly away,
Passing Pomposity?
(Reblogged from starange)

American children in the early 20th Century. 1900-1925

http://www.reddit.com/r/offbeat/comments/kge44/american_children_in_the_early_20th_century/

(via themathkid, prostheticknowledge) View high resolution

(via themathkid, prostheticknowledge)

(Reblogged from themathkid)
sneakystratus: A tachyon is a hypothetical subatomic particle that moves faster than light. In the language of special relativity, a tachyon would be a particle with space-like four-momentum and imaginary proper time. A tachyon would be constrained to the space-like portion of the energy-momentum graph. Therefore, it cannot slow down to subluminal speeds. If tachyons are conventional, localizable particles that can be used to send signals faster than light, this would lead to violations of causality in special relativity. However, in the framework of quantum field theory, tachyons are understood as signifying an instability of the system and dismissed through tachyon condensation, rather than being treated as real faster-than-light particles, and such instabilities are described by tachyonic fields. Tachyonic fields have appeared theoretically in a variety of contexts, such as the bosonic string theory. According to the contemporary and widely accepted understanding of the concept of a particle, tachyon particles are too unstable to be treated as existent. According to that theory, faster than light information transmission and causality violation with tachyons are impossible. Tachyons are, incidentally, mentioned in great length in Star trek, and beams of them are said to be used as a faster-than-light detector of cloaked ships. They are also involved in some aspect of Romulan cloaking technology. Since a Tachyon moves faster than the speed of light, we cannot see it approaching. After a tachyon has passed nearby, we would be able to see two images of it, appearing and departing in opposite directions. The black line is the shock wave of Cherenkov radiation, shown only in one moment of time.

sneakystratus:

A tachyon is a hypothetical subatomic particle that moves faster than light. In the language of special relativity, a tachyon would be a particle with space-like four-momentum and imaginary proper time. A tachyon would be constrained to the space-like portion of the energy-momentum graph. Therefore, it cannot slow down to subluminal speeds.

If tachyons are conventional, localizable particles that can be used to send signals faster than light, this would lead to violations of causality in special relativity. However, in the framework of quantum field theory, tachyons are understood as signifying an instability of the system and dismissed through tachyon condensation, rather than being treated as real faster-than-light particles, and such instabilities are described by tachyonic fields. Tachyonic fields have appeared theoretically in a variety of contexts, such as the bosonic string theory. According to the contemporary and widely accepted understanding of the concept of a particle, tachyon particles are too unstable to be treated as existent. According to that theory, faster than light information transmission and causality violation with tachyons are impossible.

Tachyons are, incidentally, mentioned in great length in Star trek, and beams of them are said to be used as a faster-than-light detector of cloaked ships. They are also involved in some aspect of Romulan cloaking technology.

Since a Tachyon moves faster than the speed of light, we cannot see it approaching. After a tachyon has passed nearby, we would be able to see two images of it, appearing and departing in opposite directions. The black line is the shock wave of Cherenkov radiation, shown only in one moment of time.

(Source: samanthorium)

(Reblogged from zeroinfinite-deactivated2012012)
sawdustfactory: Physics Equations (by towert7)

sawdustfactory:

Physics Equations (by towert7)

(Reblogged from sawdustfactory)
matthen: This is the only equation to appear in Westminster Abbey, it’s engraved on a plaque commemorating P. A. M. Dirac.  Dirac’s search for this equation was very much guided by mathematical beauty.  He wanted to find an equation which was elegant, and he succeeded.  The equation, which describes all the dynamics of an electron, also predicts the existence of anti-matter. This was a remarkable consequence at the time.  It’s a shame that to really appreciate the beauty of mathematics, you really need to know maths.  In this blog I’ve been trying to exhibit this beauty without requiring you to learn loads of maths. [There are loads of funny stories about Dirac, which my Quantum Mechanics teacher used to read from this biography of Dirac by a bye-fellow of my College]

matthen:

This is the only equation to appear in Westminster Abbey, it’s engraved on a plaque commemorating P. A. M. Dirac.  Dirac’s search for this equation was very much guided by mathematical beauty.  He wanted to find an equation which was elegant, and he succeeded.  The equation, which describes all the dynamics of an electron, also predicts the existence of anti-matter. This was a remarkable consequence at the time.  It’s a shame that to really appreciate the beauty of mathematics, you really need to know maths.  In this blog I’ve been trying to exhibit this beauty without requiring you to learn loads of maths.

[There are loads of funny stories about Dirac, which my Quantum Mechanics teacher used to read from this biography of Dirac by a bye-fellow of my College]

(Reblogged from matthen)
(Reblogged from themathkid)