Moebius Stripper

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Sun, 26 May 2013 02:21:29 +0100

«…one of the strongest motives that lead men to art and...

Sun, 26 May 2013 02:19:55 +0100

«…one of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one’s own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.»

Albert Einstein

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Sun, 26 May 2013 02:13:12 +0100

It is so nice to see your url popping up on my dash again! :)

Sat, 25 May 2013 18:39:06 +0100

Oh, thank you so much. I’ve been away for a while. And it’s the same for me because your...

The Rose Galaxies.

Fri, 24 May 2013 00:56:50 +0100

The Rose Galaxies.

"Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality. When we..."

Wed, 22 May 2013 18:32:00 +0100

“Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality....

Today I tried to program a few fractals. Hopefully one day...

Wed, 22 May 2013 18:11:00 +0100

Today I tried to program a few fractals. Hopefully one day I’ll reproduce one that looks half as beautiful as this one. I’ll probably upload some more fractal images today.

I’d set up a tent right there and call it my portal to...

Wed, 22 May 2013 01:07:59 +0100

I’d set up a tent right there and call it my portal to starry-awesomeness.

Two galaxies colliding.

Wed, 22 May 2013 01:06:23 +0100

Two galaxies colliding.

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Tue, 21 May 2013 18:01:07 +0100

bobbycaputo: The Only Known Photograph of Einstein Deriving his...

Tue, 21 May 2013 12:00:39 +0100

bobbycaputo:

The Only Known Photograph of Einstein Deriving his Famous E=mc² Equation

At a public lecture in Pittsburgh in 1934, four hundred lucky students were privy to a lecture by Albert Einstein, in which the great man mathematically derived his famous mass-energy equivalence equation: E=mc². What you see above is a photo from that lecture, and what is thought to be the only surviving photo that shows Einstein working on that derivation.

The photo was pulled from a halftone newspaper clipping by David Topper and Dwight Vincent of the University of Winnipeg, who discovered it in 2007. Sadly, everything is a bit fuzzy so you can’t really make out the famed equation itself. And even though the original article had a crisp picture of Einstein posing next to one of his blackboards, he’s next to the wrong one.

Here’s a closer look at the man and the math. If you look closely, you’ll see the mass-energy equivalence in the lower left hand corner of the blackboard on the right:

Fortunately, Topper and Vincent managed to take the blurry photo and reproduce both blackboards in their original paper. Here’s the math behind the magic, the derivation of mass-energy equivalence as presented by Albert Einstein.

In case you’re wondering why the famous equation says Δ

twocubes: shit

Tue, 21 May 2013 06:00:32 +0100

twocubes:

shit

There are no words to express how much I love this movie.Also, I...

Mon, 20 May 2013 22:58:25 +0100

There are no words to express how much I love this movie.
Also, I might be slightly infatuated with Howl.

twocubes: So, the euler spiral! It’s the big one at the top....

Mon, 20 May 2013 18:00:52 +0100

twocubes:

So, the euler spiral! It’s the big one at the top. It’s traced out by the parametric equations written under it.

I thought something interesting would happen if I replaced the cosine and the sine with the derivatives of the parameterizations of various other curves, and then this happened.

This is beautiful. Right in the feels.

Mon, 20 May 2013 13:45:28 +0100

This is beautiful. Right in the feels.

I am so sorry to all Glee fans, but this had to be posted.

Mon, 20 May 2013 13:29:24 +0100

I am so sorry to all Glee fans, but this had to be posted.

quantizedconfusion: The Fourier series approximation for the...

Mon, 20 May 2013 12:00:55 +0100

quantizedconfusion:

The Fourier series approximation for the Step Function (or Square Wave) is 1/n * Sin(n*pi*x)/L for odd values of n. Here is the expansion, plotted up to n=49. Below are the individual waves and above is the progression of their added values!

ghostsofcygnus: I look up — many people feel small because...

Mon, 20 May 2013 06:00:45 +0100

ghostsofcygnus:

I look up — many people feel small because they’re small and the Universe is big — but I feel big, because my atoms came from those stars. There’s a level of connectivity.

That’s really what you want in life, you want to feel connected, you want to feel relevant, you want to feel like a participant in the goings on of activities and events around you.

That’s precisely what we are, just by being alive…

- Dr. Neil DeGrasse Tyson

”Give me the splendid silent sun with all his beams...

Mon, 20 May 2013 00:21:20 +0100

”Give me the splendid silent sun
with all his beams full-dazzling,
Give me juicy autumnal fruit ripe and red from the orchard,
Give me a field where the unmow’d grass grows,
Give me an arbor, give me the trellis’d grape,
Give me fresh corn and wheat, give me serene-moving animals teaching content,”

Walt Whitman

I wouldn’t mind having this view from my house.

Mon, 20 May 2013 00:15:25 +0100

I wouldn’t mind having this view from my house.