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geometrymatters: The Platonic Solids (dodecahedron and...

Thu, 09 May 2013 21:14:37 -0400

The Platonic Solids (dodecahedron and icosahedron) share their structure not only with crystals but also with human DNA as shown in the example.

Today,Richard Hughes and pals at Los Alamos National Labs in New...

Mon, 06 May 2013 16:29:46 -0400

Today,Richard Hughes and pals at Los Alamos National Labs in New Mexico reveal an alternative quantum internet, which they say they’ve been running for two and half years. Their approach is to create a quantum network based around a hub and spoke-type network. All messages get routed from any point in the network to another via this central hub. (via Government Lab Reveals It Has Operated Quantum Internet For Over Two Years | MIT Technology Review)

wnycradiolab: thatscienceguy: Awesome bubble geometry! YES.

Sat, 04 May 2013 02:42:23 -0400

wnycradiolab:

thatscienceguy:

Awesome bubble geometry!

YES.

"Unlike clocks or any other known objects, time crystals derive their movement not from stored energy..."

Wed, 01 May 2013 22:13:46 -0400

“Unlike clocks or any other known objects, time crystals derive their movement not from stored energy but from a break in the symmetry of time, enabling a special form of perpetual motion.”

- ‘Time Crystals’ Could Upend Physicists’ Theory of Time | Wired Science (via ltdink)

freshphotons: Bioluminescence at the Cell Membrane Produced by...

Wed, 01 May 2013 22:13:21 -0400

freshphotons:

Bioluminescence at the Cell Membrane Produced by NanoLuc and Furimazine. Maciek Smuga-Otto, Brian Rosenberg, Keith V. Wood, Monika G. Wood, Thomas Machleidt, and Matt B. Robers (Promega Corporation, Madison, WI, USA). Artistic rendering of bioluminescence produced by human cells expressing NanoLuc (an engineered luciferase reporter) fused to a membrane-localized β2-adrenergic receptor, illustrated as a computational model bound to the substrate furimazine. Via.

A Boy And His Atom: The World’s Smallest Movie (by IBM)

Wed, 01 May 2013 11:50:55 -0400

A Boy And His Atom: The World’s Smallest Movie (by IBM)

wnycradiolab: Are there more of these? There certainly are.

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 10:41:42 -0400

wnycradiolab:

Are there more of these? There certainly are.

laughingsquid: crt mgn, Art Installation That Makes Magnetic...

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 10:36:57 -0400

laughingsquid:

crt mgn, Art Installation That Makes Magnetic Fields Visible

I am an artist of movement. Jean Tinguely in a radio...

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 10:22:30 -0400

I am an artist of movement.

Jean Tinguely in a radio conversation, Radio Télevision Belge (RTB), Brussels, 13 December 1982

(via Shape Grammar and Style Simulation)

purestform: Shape Grammars and the Generative Specification of...

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 21:30:43 -0400

purestform:

Shape Grammars and the Generative Specification of Painting and Sculpture

G. Stiny and J. Gips
Proceedings of IFIP Congress 1971

‘Forest’ is the latest interactive installation by Marshmallow...

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 11:39:43 -0400

‘Forest’ is the latest interactive installation by Marshmallow Laser Feast, London collective consisting of Memo Akten, Robin McNicholas and Barney Steel. Commissioned by and premiered at the STRP Biennale in Eindhoven, ‘Forest’ covers almost 450 square meters and is comprised of over 150 musical ‘trees’ made of rods and lasers. (via ‘Forest’ - Musical forest by Marshmallow Laser Feast (@marshmallowlf) for STRP Biennale (@strpfest))

un: joshbyard: European Scientists Propose Quantum Link...

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 19:35:24 -0400

un:

joshbyard:

European Scientists Propose Quantum Link Between International Space Station and Earth

The proposal, published by the Institute of Physics and the New Physics Journal today, is surprisingly simple, and exceptional because it requires very little in the way of modification to the ISS.

Basically, the ISS is already equipped with a Nikon camera and 400mm lens (together called NightPod), pointed at the Earth through a 70cm window in the Cupola Module. The European physicists’ proposal would keep the lens in place, but replace the camera with a new, single-photon counting module. This module would be shipped to the ISS aboard a SpaceX Dragon or a Russian Soyuz capsule.

Once the module is in place, a base station here on Earth on will entangle pairs of photons, with one half being kept on Earth, and the other half being transmitted to the ISS.

The physicists propose two experiments. The first is a standard Bell-type experiment, which confirms that the entangled photons are indeed under the governance of quantum physics, rather than classical physics (which strictly doesn’t allow for these quantum entangled shenanigans).

The second experiment would see the transmission of a quantum cryptography key, to see if it’s viable to secure conventional communications with space-based quantum key distribution (QKD).

These experiments will be carried out as the ISS makes overhead passes of the optical ground station. ”During a few months a year, the ISS passes five to six times in a row in the correct orientation for us to do our experiments. We envision setting up the experiment for a whole week and therefore having more than enough links to the ISS available,” says Rupert Ursi, co-author of the proposal.

(via European scientists propose world’s largest quantum network, between Earth and the ISS | ExtremeTech)

How does one quantum entangle things? What is the process of this witchery?

planetaryfolklore: laughingsquid: Three-Minute Time-Lapse of...

Tue, 26 Mar 2013 21:51:52 -0400

planetaryfolklore:

laughingsquid: Three-Minute Time-Lapse of the Aurora Borealis on March 17th, 2013

freshphotons: “A multi-directional backlight for a wide-angle,...

Thu, 21 Mar 2013 20:23:51 -0400

freshphotons:

“A multi-directional backlight for a wide-angle, glasses-free three-dimensional display”

Prairie Dog Snake Alarm (by NatGeoWild)

Sat, 16 Mar 2013 02:25:51 -0400

Prairie Dog Snake Alarm (by NatGeoWild)

chooooosan: 肌衣　背中チャック（画材：アクリル絵の具）

Thu, 14 Mar 2013 02:30:25 -0400

chooooosan:

肌衣　背中チャック（画材：アクリル絵の具）

"Do not feel absolutely certain of anything."

Mon, 11 Mar 2013 12:03:05 -0400

“Do not feel absolutely certain of anything.”

- A Liberal Decalogue: Bertrand Russell’s 10 Commandments of Teaching | Brain Pickings

Now, thanks to these Chinese physicists — the same ones who...

Thu, 07 Mar 2013 16:04:58 -0500

Now, thanks to these Chinese physicists — the same ones who broke the quantum teleportation distance record last year — we know that spooky action at a distance has a lower bound of four orders of magnitude faster than light, or around 3 trillion meters per second. We say “at least,” because the physicists do not rule out that spooky action is actually instantaneous — but their testing equipment and methodology simply doesn’t allow them to get any more accurate. (via Chinese physicists measure speed of Einstein’s ‘spooky action at a distance’: At least 10,000 times faster than light | ExtremeTech)

Badass JavaScript: An Iron Man Like 3d Hologram Controlled by Leap Motion and Three.js

Thu, 07 Mar 2013 12:32:43 -0500

Badass JavaScript: An Iron Man Like 3d Hologram Controlled by Leap Motion and Three.js:

badassjs:

The Leap Motion is a very cool piece of technology. It’s a small $80 box that you can put on your desk to control an ordinary computer using hand motions. It’s extremely accurate, allowing for very fine motor control using all of your fingers. If you haven’t seen it, be sure to check it…

The Optiverse (by evltube)

Tue, 05 Mar 2013 19:00:23 -0500

The Optiverse (by evltube)

spooky{abstr}action

geometrymatters: The Platonic Solids (dodecahedron and...

Today,Richard Hughes and pals at Los Alamos National Labs in New...

wnycradiolab: thatscienceguy: Awesome bubble geometry! YES.

"Unlike clocks or any other known objects, time crystals derive their movement not from stored energy..."

freshphotons: Bioluminescence at the Cell Membrane Produced by...

A Boy And His Atom: The World’s Smallest Movie (by IBM)

wnycradiolab: Are there more of these? There certainly are.

laughingsquid: crt mgn, Art Installation That Makes Magnetic...

I am an artist of movement. Jean Tinguely in a radio...

purestform: Shape Grammars and the Generative Specification of...

‘Forest’ is the latest interactive installation by Marshmallow...

un: joshbyard: European Scientists Propose Quantum Link...

planetaryfolklore: laughingsquid: Three-Minute Time-Lapse of...

freshphotons: “A multi-directional backlight for a wide-angle,...

Prairie Dog Snake Alarm (by NatGeoWild)

chooooosan: 肌衣 背中チャック（画材：アクリル絵の具）

"Do not feel absolutely certain of anything."

Now, thanks to these Chinese physicists — the same ones who...

Badass JavaScript: An Iron Man Like 3d Hologram Controlled by Leap Motion and Three.js

The Optiverse (by evltube)

chooooosan: 肌衣　背中チャック（画材：アクリル絵の具）