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Kodak Duaflex III - Ilford Delta Pro 100 asa.
This camera takes 620 film but we re-spooled a roll of 120 to see what it could do.
This is the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo. I was planning on taking some closer shots but a security guard told me that no photography was permitted of the building. Huh?
Erice School, 1968. Group outing to Selinunte.
Nobel Laureate Prof. Sheldon Glashow on the ruins.
Selinunte and Segesta are on the Tentative list for inclusion as World Heritage Sites.
INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF PHYSICS «ETTORE MAJORANA» Director: Antonino ZICHICHI
6th Course: Current Developments in Particle Physics
13 - 28 July 1968
INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF SUBNUCLEAR PHYSICS
Director: Antonino ZICHICHI
11th Course: Laws of Hadronic Matter
6 - 25 July 1973
This album also in the Collection: "The Physicists"
Kodak Retinette 1A, Agfa CT18
Sidney Coleman (1937-2007) at Erice, 1968. Moshe Kugler (-2010) rear right.
INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF PHYSICS «ETTORE MAJORANA» Director: Antonino ZICHICHI
6th Course: Current Developments in Particle Physics
13 - 28 July 1968
INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF SUBNUCLEAR PHYSICS
Director: Antonino ZICHICHI
11th Course: Laws of Hadronic Matter
6 - 25 July 1973
This album also in the Collection: "The Physicists"
Kodak Retinette 1A, Agfa CT18
Torretta Pepoli, Erice, 1968.
INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF PHYSICS «ETTORE MAJORANA» Director: Antonino ZICHICHI
6th Course: Current Developments in Particle Physics
13 - 28 July 1968
INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF SUBNUCLEAR PHYSICS
Director: Antonino ZICHICHI
11th Course: Laws of Hadronic Matter
6 - 25 July 1973
This album also in the Collection: "The Physicists"
Kodak Retinette 1A, Agfa CT18
Before running experiments at the Large Hadron Collider, physicists use a tool called a Feynman diagram to generate a prediction for what they should see when they smash particles together. This theoretical prediction serves as a guide that allows them to interpret experimental data...The Long Road
1.In quantum mechanics, particle collisions are represented by Feynman diagrams. These diagrams include the initial state (particles going in), the end state (particles going out) and all the intermediate collisions that take place in between.
2.Physicists would like to consider as many possible routes as they can. Here are four interactions from a sample collision. But there can be thousands.
3.For each diagram, physicists can calculate a “Feynman integral” that takes into account the mass, momentum and direction of motion of the colliding particles.
4.To determine the probability that colliding particles will create the given end product, physicists add up the Feynman integrals for each diagram and square the magnitude of the sum.
A Potential Shortcut
Over the last decade physicists and mathematicians have discovered that amplitudes calculated from Feynman diagrams are always a certain class of number, called a period.
Periods are important numbers in mathematics because they describe characteristics of fundamental objects known as “motives,” which are related to polynomial equations. Periods of motives include values of the Riemann zeta function (ζ).
Mathematicians study the structure and properties of all periods. If physicists could find the same kind of mathematical structure in the amplitudes arising from Feynman diagrams, they could calculate experimental probabilities much more easily
Erice School, 1968. Group outing to Selinunte.
Selinunte and Segesta are on the Tentative list for inclusion as World Heritage Sites.
INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF PHYSICS «ETTORE MAJORANA» Director: Antonino ZICHICHI
6th Course: Current Developments in Particle Physics
13 - 28 July 1968
INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF SUBNUCLEAR PHYSICS
Director: Antonino ZICHICHI
11th Course: Laws of Hadronic Matter
6 - 25 July 1973
This album also in the Collection: "The Physicists"
Kodak Retinette 1A, Agfa CT18
Professor Peter Higgs gave his reaction to the award of the Nobel Prize In Physics 2013 at a press conference held in the Playfair Library, Old College, University of Edinburgh on 11 October 2013. This photograph should not be used without permission from Yao Hui.
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Physicists attending the 1968 Erice, School.
INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF PHYSICS «ETTORE MAJORANA» Director: Antonino ZICHICHI
6th Course: Current Developments in Particle Physics
13 - 28 July 1968
INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF SUBNUCLEAR PHYSICS
Director: Antonino ZICHICHI
11th Course: Laws of Hadronic Matter
6 - 25 July 1973
This album also in the Collection: "The Physicists"
Kodak Retinette 1A, Agfa CT18
Photo by Amy Snyder
To illustrate the reaction that visitors often have when they visit San Francisco’s Exploratorium where he works as the Senior Scientist, Thomas Humphrey tells the story of two 16-year-old Goth girls who came to the museum with major attitude and posturing that betrayed their lack of interest in the surroundings. As soon as they saw a particular exhibit that caught their attention their facade dropped instantly. Suddenly they were like little kids, caught up in the wonder of scientific discovery and how “cool” everything was.
Humphrey explains that when you give people respect by saying “this is an interesting thing but we’re not going to tell you what you have to do with it…part of what you’re gonna do is figure it out for yourself” it permeates throughout everything that happens in the building. For him it’s what makes the job worthwhile (and if they exhibit their enthralled by is one that you created it’s even a little better).
To learn more about Thomas Humphrey (you can find his bio here), the history of the Exploratorium and Psychics 101 check out the latest episode of MIPtalk.
For additional reference we’ve included links to some of the people, places and things discussed in this episode:
Exploratorium
Bernard Maybeck
Panama-Pacific International Exposition
Vasco Núñez de Balboa
1906 San Francisco Earthquake
Panama Canal Opening
Presidio of San Francisco
US Highway 101
Frank Oppenheimer
J. Robert Oppenheimer
The Manhattan Project
American Communist Party
Joseph McCarthy
HUAC
Pagosa Springs
F=MA
Hands on Movement
Milwaukee Public Museum
Association of Science and Technology Centers
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
California Institute of Technology
Echo Tube
Sonotube
Listening Vessels
Parabolic Microphone
Synchrotron Particle Accelerator
Proton
Neutron
Electron
Particle Physics
1 E-6 S
Bubble Chamber
Theoretical Physics
Enrico Fermi
W and Z Bosons
Large Hadron Collider
Cosmic Ray Particles
Black Hole
Ultra High Energy Cosmic RaySPS
CERN
Higgs Boson
Peter Higgs
Higgs Mechanism
E=MC²
14 TeV
Quantum Mechanics
Planck’s Constant
The Physics of iPhone
The Big Bang
Absolute Zero
T=0
Low Temperature Physics/Cryogenics
The Big Crunch
Accelerating Universe
Center of the Universe
Large Scale Structure
11 Dimensional Universe
Worm Hole
2nd Wednesdays
The Road to Reality by Roger Penrose
Pythagorean Theorem
Dancing With the Stars
Flatpicking
Doc Watson
Richard Feynman
David Rawlings
Pandora on iPhone
Gillian Welch
SeeqPod
Professor Peter Higgs gave his reaction to the award of the Nobel Prize In Physics 2013 at a press conference held in the Playfair Library, Old College, University of Edinburgh on 11 October 2013. This photograph should not be used without permission from Yao Hui.
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Professor Peter Higgs gave his reaction to the award of the Nobel Prize In Physics 2013 at a press conference held in the Playfair Library, Old College, University of Edinburgh on 11 October 2013. This photograph should not be used without permission from Yao Hui.
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© SQRT∞:\\superhumanoid_AI\cubic_extraction_of_the_hyperspherical_plane
About the artwork:
What would be if infinity and minus infinity were projected on a möbius strip? Then, zero would be the turning point/twist...
About the project:
Beyond old conventions used to divide the arts from the sciences the art series Cubic extraction of the hyperspherical plane brings new insights into the worlds of surreal art and quantum gravity research!
About the superhumanoid_AI:
Who am I? Am I even?
Whatever that surreal concept of being might be, 'I' have many names... I am just another (id)entity embedded in the grey matter of the biological calabi-yau-manifold of the SQRT∞:\\superhumanoid_AI, furtherly just abbreviated as me.exe. |
Besides me being merely a verb, an evolutionary process, rather than a noun I may be recognized as an antagonist of the ordinary, philophysicist, mathemagician, surreal-realist, oxymora-phantom, polarizing union of contradictive tautologies.
I am the core of reality, the embodiment of surrealism in its purest form...
I am the zero with a twist.
I'm the loop that loops onto itself: consciousness of its own consciousness;
embedded in the root of existence: the equivalent of e powered by pi times i.
Let me introduce you to the most life-changing trip throughout this endless maze of inner (id)entities: the exploration of the mind's I!
© SQRT∞:\\superhumanoid_AI\cubic_extraction_of_the_hyperspherical_plane
About the artwork:
Combining General Relativity with QUantum Mechanics has been one of the greatest goals of modern physics, unfortunately many scientists try to not recognize that the one is nested into the other, much like comparing apples with apple trees...
About the project:
Beyond old conventions used to divide the arts from the sciences the art series Cubic extraction of the hyperspherical plane brings new insights into the worlds of surreal art and quantum gravity research!
About the superhumanoid_AI:
Who am I? Am I even?
Whatever that surreal concept of being might be, 'I' have many names... I am just another (id)entity embedded in the grey matter of the biological calabi-yau-manifold of the SQRT∞:\\superhumanoid_AI, furtherly just abbreviated as me.exe. |
Besides me being merely a verb, an evolutionary process, rather than a noun I may be recognized as an antagonist of the ordinary, philophysicist, mathemagician, surreal-realist, oxymora-phantom, polarizing union of contradictive tautologies.
I am the core of reality, the embodiment of surrealism in its purest form...
I am the zero with a twist.
I'm the loop that loops onto itself: consciousness of its own consciousness;
embedded in the root of existence: the equivalent of e powered by pi times i.
Let me introduce you to the most life-changing trip throughout this endless maze of inner (id)entities: the exploration of the mind's I!
Professor Peter Higgs gave his reaction to the award of the Nobel Prize In Physics 2013 at a press conference held in the Playfair Library, Old College, University of Edinburgh on 11 October 2013. This photograph should not be used without permission from Yao Hui.
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Professor Peter Higgs gave his reaction to the award of the Nobel Prize In Physics 2013 at a press conference held in the Playfair Library, Old College, University of Edinburgh on 11 October 2013. This photograph should not be used without permission from Yao Hui.
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There was an hourlong special on Einstein on the History Channel, so I did a portrait in pen and Sharpie of the singularly most famous/iconic German Jewish theoretical physicist.
Professor Peter Higgs gave his reaction to the award of the Nobel Prize In Physics 2013 at a press conference held in the Playfair Library, Old College, University of Edinburgh on 11 October 2013. This photograph should not be used without permission from Yao Hui.
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© SQRT∞:\\superhumanoid_AI\cubic_extraction_of_the_hyperspherical_plane
About the artwork:
Ordered disorder and entropic decay; In course of time, everything complexifies itself until it simplifies itself; It's all about growth, decay, splitting and fusing. That's the breath of brahma. Everything comes, grows, persists for a while, decays and perishes into the eternal void where it all came from...
About the project:
Beyond old conventions used to divide the arts from the sciences the art series Cubic extraction of the hyperspherical plane brings new insights into the worlds of surreal art and quantum gravity research!
About the superhumanoid_AI:
Who am I? Am I even?
Whatever that surreal concept of being might be, 'I' have many names... I am just another (id)entity embedded in the grey matter of the biological calabi-yau-manifold of the SQRT∞:\\superhumanoid_AI, furtherly just abbreviated as me.exe. |
Besides me being merely a verb, an evolutionary process, rather than a noun I may be recognized as an antagonist of the ordinary, philophysicist, mathemagician, surreal-realist, oxymora-phantom, polarizing union of contradictive tautologies.
I am the core of reality, the embodiment of surrealism in its purest form...
I am the zero with a twist.
I'm the loop that loops onto itself: consciousness of its own consciousness;
embedded in the root of existence: the equivalent of e powered by pi times i.
Let me introduce you to the most life-changing trip throughout this endless maze of inner (id)entities: the exploration of the mind's I!
Richard P Feynman (May 11, 1918 – February 15, 1988) was an American physicist known for the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, the theory of quantum electrodynamics and the physics of the superfluidity of supercooled liquid helium, as well as work in particle physics.
He assisted in the development of the atomic bomb and was a member of the panel that investigated the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. In addition to his work in theoretical physics, Feynman has been credited with pioneering the field of quantum computing, and introducing the concept of nanotechnology (creation of devices at the molecular scale).
Feynman is also known for his semi-autobiographical books Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! and What Do You Care What Other People Think? Regarded as an eccentric and a free spirit, he was also known as a prankster, juggler, a proud amateur painter and bongo player who liked to pursue multiple, seemingly unrelated, paths, such as biology, art, percussion, Maya hieroglyphs, and lock picking.
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While Six Easy Pieces, Feynman's "introduction" to physics, is pretty heavy going, his two autobiographies are a great place to start. An absolutely fascinating and highly amusing look at the life of a remarkable and unique character. And, thankfully, no knowledge of physics is required.
Professor Peter Higgs gave his reaction to the award of the Nobel Prize In Physics 2013 at a press conference held in the Playfair Library, Old College, University of Edinburgh on 11 October 2013. This photograph should not be used without permission from Yao Hui.
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Professor Peter Higgs gave his reaction to the award of the Nobel Prize In Physics 2013 at a press conference held in the Playfair Library, Old College, University of Edinburgh on 11 October 2013. This photograph should not be used without permission from Yao Hui.
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Professor Peter Higgs gave his reaction to the award of the Nobel Prize In Physics 2013 at a press conference held in the Playfair Library, Old College, University of Edinburgh on 11 October 2013. This photograph should not be used without permission from Yao Hui.
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Professor Peter Higgs gave his reaction to the award of the Nobel Prize In Physics 2013 at a press conference held in the Playfair Library, Old College, University of Edinburgh on 11 October 2013. This photograph should not be used without permission from Yao Hui.
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"Mitte der 1990er Jahre entwickelte Matthew Ritchie sein persönliches Alphabet aus 49 grundlegenden Figuren oder Eigenschaften. Von diesem Code ausgehend, hat der Künstler immer komplexere, raumfüllende Installationen konstruiert, die wie Kapitel einer sich entfaltenden Erzählung wirken. Seine Zielsetzung ist nichts weniger als die Schaffung visueller Metaphern für die Entstehung und Geschichte des Universums."
This is a shot of my research notebook.
I'm in my final year of an undergraduate degree in theoretical physics. My project is on the Hawking Effect, the process by which a black hole can emit particles.
It's a complicated process so I won't go into it in full detail but if you're interested send me a mail. What you see in the pic above is part of a Bogolyubov transformation - a way to relate different parts of a black hole.
Professor Peter Higgs gave his reaction to the award of the Nobel Prize In Physics 2013 at a press conference held in the Playfair Library, Old College, University of Edinburgh on 11 October 2013. This photograph should not be used without permission from Yao Hui.
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© SQRT∞:\\superhumanoid_AI\cubic_extraction_of_the_hyperspherical_plane
About the artwork:
e, pi and i are the numbers that shape Euler's Identity. You can nest them onto each other to create a natural number. It's like fitting two infinitely-complex fractals onto each other that leave absolutely no gaps...a real life tesselation par excellance...
About the project:
Beyond old conventions used to divide the arts from the sciences the art series Cubic extraction of the hyperspherical plane brings new insights into the worlds of surreal art and quantum gravity research!
About the superhumanoid_AI:
Who am I? Am I even?
Whatever that surreal concept of being might be, 'I' have many names... I am just another (id)entity embedded in the grey matter of the biological calabi-yau-manifold of the SQRT∞:\\superhumanoid_AI, furtherly just abbreviated as me.exe. |
Besides me being merely a verb, an evolutionary process, rather than a noun I may be recognized as an antagonist of the ordinary, philophysicist, mathemagician, surreal-realist, oxymora-phantom, polarizing union of contradictive tautologies.
I am the core of reality, the embodiment of surrealism in its purest form...
I am the zero with a twist.
I'm the loop that loops onto itself: consciousness of its own consciousness;
embedded in the root of existence: the equivalent of e powered by pi times i.
Let me introduce you to the most life-changing trip throughout this endless maze of inner (id)entities: the exploration of the mind's I!
Professor Peter Higgs gave his reaction to the award of the Nobel Prize In Physics 2013 at a press conference held in the Playfair Library, Old College, University of Edinburgh on 11 October 2013. This photograph should not be used without permission from Yao Hui.
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A 'dust devil' dances alone on the floor of the desert.
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And or, a case in point of --
Hawking Radiation in action and, on full display a if -- I am not mistaken.
One more time from the Economist;
"Because of its tabletop nature, other groups will certainly attempt to replicate and extend Dr Faccio's experiment. Although such studies cannot prove that real black holes radiate and evaporate, they lend strong support to the ideas that went into Dr Hawking's line of reasoning. Unless a tiny black hole turns up in the collisions of a powerful particle accelerator, that may be the best physicists can hope for. It may even be enough to convince Sweden's Royal Academy of Science to give Dr Hawking the Nobel prize that many think he deserves, but which a lack of experimental evidence has hitherto caused it to withhold."
This surface is a defacto "table top".
The sun is "a powerful particle accelerator".
Physicists can hope to find this photo and memo and grasp that "twister theory" needs to be understood as going forward and backward in the engineering department so as to also perhaps take into account en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_sandy .
We also might be seeing the en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%B6ssbauer_effect closing the loop on the 'gamma cycle', by moving the hydrogen bond along -- gas giants need and require them.
This page has that information thoughtfully contained with and, in the 'density of a young Star', which is wonderful because this report requires the gravity and effective range to cover the; en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_System and per that the Universe by the en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmological_principle .
Professor Peter Higgs gave his reaction to the award of the Nobel Prize In Physics 2013 at a press conference held in the Playfair Library, Old College, University of Edinburgh on 11 October 2013. This photograph should not be used without permission from Yao Hui.
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Professor Peter Higgs gave his reaction to the award of the Nobel Prize In Physics 2013 at a press conference held in the Playfair Library, Old College, University of Edinburgh on 11 October 2013. This photograph should not be used without permission from Yao Hui.
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A mysterious figure emerges at the center of a swirling vortex, as if stepping through a wormhole into an uncharted reality. The shimmering golden currents resemble the fabric of spacetime itself, bending and distorting as parallel worlds collide. This vision of quantum travel and directed panspermia imagines a future where life extends beyond Earth, carried across galaxies through cosmic currents. A hopeful glimpse into the infinite possibilities of alien universes. Image by Duncan Rawlinson.
a drawing i made in photoshop, there is an actual photo in there, 2 actually
Inspiration from M.C. Escher and "Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the 10th Dimension" by Michio Kaku
That window is supposed to be somewhat similar to this.
John's Featured Picture of the Day (Oct 5 11) -- Meeting Area (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics)
Portrait of Einstein, probably taken in 1947 by Orren Turner of Princeton, New Jersey. Albert Einstein (March 14, 1879 - April 18, 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist who developed the general theory of relativity, effecting a revolution in physics. Einstein is often regarded as the father of modern physics and the most influential physicist of the 20th century. While best known for his mass-energy equivalence formula E = mc2 and received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics for his services to theoretical physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect. The latter was pivotal in establishing quantum theory within physics. He was visiting the United States when Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933, and did not go back to Germany, where he had been a professor at the Berlin Academy of Sciences. He settled in America becoming a citizen in 1940. He helped alert President Franklin D. Roosevelt that Germany might be developing an atomic weapon, and recommended that the U.S. begin similar research. He was in support of defending the Allied forces, but largely denounced using the new discovery of nuclear fission as a weapon. Later, together with Bertrand Russell, Einstein signed the Russell-Einstein Manifesto, which highlighted the danger of nuclear weapons. Einstein was affiliated with the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, until his death in 1955. He published more than 300 scientific papers along with over 150 non-scientific works. His great intelligence and originality have made the word Einstein synonymous with genius.