April 16, 2012 snaileybailey

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April 15, 2012 quantumaniac

quantumaniac:

Some of the Founders of Quantum Mechanics

Left to Right: 

  • Niels Bohr: (1885-1962)
  • Max Planck: (1858-1947)
  • Max Born: (1882-1970)
  • Albert Einstein: (1879-1955)
  • Louis de Broglie: (1892-1987) 
  • Werner Heisenberg: (1901-1976) 
  • Erwin Schrodinger: (1887-1961) 
  • John von Neumann: (1903-1957) 
  • Paul Dirac: (1902-1984) 
  • Wolfgang Pauli: (1900-1958) 
Pioneer Plaque
sirades: Culebra, Puerto Rico
April 15, 2012 Flickr / tedjohnjacobs

sirades:

Culebra, Puerto Rico

quantumaniac: The Problem with Creationists 
April 9, 2012 quantumaniac

quantumaniac:

The Problem with Creationists 

notasysombras: [WORD]
April 9, 2012 pinterest.com

notasysombras:

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April 9, 2012 quantumaniac

quantumaniac:

LEGO Albert Einstein

The LEGOland park in Orlando, Florida - hosts this enormous LEGO bust of Albert Einstein. Measuring in at 20 feet tall by 10 feet wide, it took a team of 7 LEGO builders about 4 months to complete! 

April 9, 2012

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quantumaniac: Richard Feynman Quote “I have a friend who’s an artist and has sometimes taken a view which I don’t agree with very well. He’ll hold up a flower and say “look how beautiful it is,” and I’ll agree. Then he says “I as an artist can see how beautiful this is but you as a scientist take this all apart and it becomes a dull thing,” and I think that he’s kind of nutty. First of all, the beauty that he sees is available to other people and to me too, I believe. Although I may not be quite as refined aesthetically as he is … I can appreciate the beauty of a flower. At the same time, I see much more about the flower than he sees. I could imagine the cells in there, the complicated actions inside, which also have a beauty. I mean it’s not just beauty at this dimension, at one centimeter; there’s also beauty at smaller dimensions, the inner structure, also the processes. The fact that the colors in the flower evolved in order to attract insects to pollinate it is interesting; it means that insects can see the color. It adds a question: does this aesthetic sense also exist in the lower forms? Why is it aesthetic? All kinds of interesting questions which the science knowledge only adds to the excitement, the mystery and the awe of a flower. It only adds. I don’t understand how it subtracts.” 
April 7, 2012 quantumaniac

quantumaniac:

Richard Feynman Quote

“I have a friend who’s an artist and has sometimes taken a view which I don’t agree with very well. He’ll hold up a flower and say “look how beautiful it is,” and I’ll agree. Then he says “I as an artist can see how beautiful this is but you as a scientist take this all apart and it becomes a dull thing,” and I think that he’s kind of nutty. First of all, the beauty that he sees is available to other people and to me too, I believe. Although I may not be quite as refined aesthetically as he is … I can appreciate the beauty of a flower. At the same time, I see much more about the flower than he sees. I could imagine the cells in there, the complicated actions inside, which also have a beauty. I mean it’s not just beauty at this dimension, at one centimeter; there’s also beauty at smaller dimensions, the inner structure, also the processes. The fact that the colors in the flower evolved in order to attract insects to pollinate it is interesting; it means that insects can see the color. It adds a question: does this aesthetic sense also exist in the lower forms? Why is it aesthetic? All kinds of interesting questions which the science knowledge only adds to the excitement, the mystery and the awe of a flower. It only adds. I don’t understand how it subtracts.” 

April 4, 2012 thisiscolossal.com

cranquis:

staceythinx:

Using glass and neon, Jessica Lloyd-Jones has created a series of sculptures inspired by biological electricity, the prescence of natural electrical activity in the human body. 

About Anatomical Neon:

Blown glass human organs encapsulate inert gases displaying different colours under the influence of an electric current. The human anatomy is a complex, biological system in which energy plays a vital role. Brain Wave conveys neurological processing activity as a kinetic and sensory, physical phenomena through its display of moving electric plasma. Optic Nerve shows a similar effect, more akin to the blood vessels of the eye and with a front ‘lens’ magnifiying the movement and the intensity of light. Heart is a representation of the human heart illuminated by still red neon gas. Electric Lungs is a more technically intricate structure with xenon gas spreading through its passage ways, communicating our human unawareness of the trace gases we inhale in our breathable atmosphere.


First picture: Mind = Blown.