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I found this video and thought it did a better job at explaining a lot of intro to quantum stuff (orbitals and spin and what-not), so I want to save it and share it. It's a bit dated (the truth and beauty quarks weren't found when it was made), but it has good physics. Enjoy!

I don't believe I've passed on this video to y'all yet. It was put together by the American Museum of Natural History through a program that was developed at the Hayden Planetarium calling the Digital Universe Atlas. You can download and play with the atlas here. It maps out all of the known galaxies in our universe ( Read more... )

Dear Livejournal,

Have I told you about hd-fractals.com yet? Because seriously, you should know about them. Below is a zooming in on the Mandelbrot set (which is just the equation z=z^2+C where z=x+i*y solved at every point in the real/imaginary plane. Blackness is when the equation goes to zero, color indicates how quickly that point is going ( Read more... )

Below is a compilation of videos taken from satellites of our sun. The video is converted to sound, which is what the soundtrack for the video is (similar to Seeing with Sound). More information on the video can be found here. Enjoy!

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I love walking around outside during the day. I smell the flowers and watch the leaves that are growing. Leaves are incredibly fascinating. The recurrent substructures that make them up fit into amazing mathematical models. Hyperbolic geometry surrounds me as I walk down the block. Self-similar fractals on every plant, symmetry laden in all the ( Read more... )

"Space," it says, "is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly hugely mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space."
-The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Chapter 8


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That is all.

Finally! Last night the skies were wonderfully clear and I was able to try out my new camera mount. It worked pretty well, ( as you can see here. )

Have you ever seen the Powers of Ten video? It's a bit dated at this point (since we can see billions of lightyears out as well as interact with individual quarks and even bits of matter that pop in and out of existence all of the time), but is still accurate for where it goes ( Read more... )