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If the sofa's good enough for Charlie the cat, it's good enough for me.
Re-reading for the umpteenth time, a book about my greatest hero physicist, Richard Feynman
Mathematician Mark Kac said:
"There are two kinds of geniuses, the "ordinary" and the "magicians". An ordinary genius is a fellow you and I would be just as good as, if we were only many times better. There is no mystery as to how his mind works. Once we understand what they have done, we feel that we too, could have done it.
It is different with the magicians.They are, to use mathematical jargon, in the orthogonal complement of where we are and the working of their minds is for all intents and purposes incomprehensible. Even when we understand what they have done, the process by which they have done it is completely dark. They seldom, if ever, have students because they cannot be emulated and it must be terribly frustrating for a brilliant young mind to cope with the mysterious ways in which the magician's mind works. Richard Feynman is a magician of the highest calibre."
My father has been diagnosed with late to end stage Parkinsons disease.
...I love him so much.
He´s taught me everything, I'm fortunate to have him in my life.
Probably the first LEGO aircraft I was really fascinated with. Everyone who follows me knows I like the camo. :) But Mad Physicists' camo scheme on the 219 really caught my eye! I started this several months ago and actually forgot about it. I was researching a Messerschmitt Bf 110 and accidentally "re-found" MP's 219. So I went back and finished it. :) I was mainly going for the "look" of his plane. I know my internals are probably different from his. It turned out not quite as nice looking as his, but it looks cool rendered. I added PA's Ketten as the aircraft tow for the lil scene.
Credit for the 219 goes to Mad Physicist
Credit for the Ketten goes to PA
“Vanity is so secure in the heart of man that everyone wants to be admired: even I who write this, and you who read this.”
(Blaise Pascal - French Mathematician, Philosopher and Physicist, 1623-1662)
This image was shot at Scindia Ghat along river Ganga in Varanasi (Benaras).
This young man was striking several poses in order to catch my attention so I could take a few snaps of him but I was pretending not to see him as I am mostly working on natural poses.
It was a Sunday afternoon before sunset and he came there to wash his laundry, his attitude was amazing, full of narcissism, each of his gesture was carrying vanity and pride...
After a while I couldn't help laughing and I took a few pictures, in fact he knew that I was leaving the akhara nearby where I often take pictures of the pehlwani (wrestlers).
The pillar on the left belongs to the remains of a massive palace which used to stand on Scindhia ghat.
The entire structure has sunk several feet into the earth since its erection and is still gradually and slowly sinking.
Sometimes in the winter when the holy waters of the Ganges come very low it is possible to see it otherwise most of the time it stays underwater.
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About the play by Friedrich Dürrenmatt: "Wikipedia English: "The Physicists" hard pastel, pastel pencil, black paper (45% cotton) 24x32cm
Itzhak Perlman plays Fritz Kreisler`s arrangement of Tartini "The Devil`s Trill - Teufelstrillersonate"
Part of: Mask // Secession, Fin de sieclé, Jugendstil, Art nouveau, Art deco - Wien um 1900 - Klimt - Loos "Ornament und Verbrechen" // An Exercise: Fools Tower ~ Narrenturm, eine Übung I asked for learning - he does not find it worth the effort to answer.
DMC-G2 - P1860383 - 2014-11-14
#kimono #musterbogen #schnittmuster
Firestorm is a nuclear-powered super-hero with the ability to transmute elements. The Firestorm Matrix is a composite of multiple people bonded together, originally high school student Ronnie Raymond controlling the body and nuclear physicist Professor Martin Stein giving direction as an additional consciousness. Mikhail Arkadin became a later Firestorm, Stein took control at one point, and Lorraine Reilly was also part of the matrix for a period.
Jason Rusch takes over the identity after the death of Raymond during Identity Crisis, and goes through several partners including Mick Wong and his girlfriend Gehenna.
In an interview Gerry Conway discussed his reasoning and influences while creating the character "I always loved the idea of the hair on fire, I think it goes back to Johnny Storm, The Human Torch, an entire flaming character, of course."
Conway further elaborated, "I’d been playing around with the idea of a teenage superhero for DC, who could sort of fill the hole that had been left in my heart by leaving Spider-Man behind. I’d been thinking about the tropes — one of which was the meek, mild alter ego, the brainy kid who, in wish fulfillment, gets superpowers, is extremely powerful… able to do things that he hadn’t been able to do before. That was, I think, the major motivating force—I wanted to play on that trope.
To do that, I wanted to flip it around: create a guy who wasn’t the brightest guy in the room, the not-terribly-smart guy who became a superpowered character. The way I’d make that work: I’d bring him into contact with the smarter person, who would also share the powers. This led to… the multiple-people-in-one, Professor Stein/ Ronnie Raymond dynamic."
Jack Kirby's 1971 design for Lightray's costume influenced the look of artist Al Milgrom's creation of Firestorm in 1978. In an interview from 2019, Milgrom admitted: "The facemask on Firestorm, the way it comes around the chin, was probably inspired by Lightray more than anything... I liked the [Lightray] head-covering thing; I said, "I'm stealin' it!"
Aliases
Ronnie Raymond / Martin Stein
The original Firestorm was distinguished by his integrated dual identity. High school student Ronnie Raymond and Nobel Prize-winning physicist Martin Stein were caught in an accident that allowed them to fuse into Firestorm the Nuclear Man.
Due to Stein being unconscious during the accident, Raymond was prominently in command of the Firestorm form with Stein a voice of reason inside his mind, able to offer Raymond advice on how to use their powers without actually having any control over their dual form.
Banter between the two was a hallmark of their adventures. Stein was initially completely unaware of their dual identity, leaving him concerned about his unusual disappearances and blackouts, but Ronnie was eventually able to convince him of the truth, allowing them to bond as separate individuals rather than as parts of a whole.
Ronnie Raymond / Martin Stein / Mikhail Arkadin
When Conway left the series in 1986, John Ostrander (with artist Joe Brozowski) began writing the Firestorm stories. His first major story arc pitted Firestorm against the world as the hero, acting on a suggestion from a terminally ill Professor Stein, demanded that the United States and the Soviet Union destroy all of their nuclear weapons.
After confrontations with the Justice League and most of his enemies, Firestorm faced the Russian nuclear superhero Pozhar in the Nevada desert, where an atomic bomb was dropped on them. A new Firestorm resulted, a fusion of the two heroes: this new Firestorm was composed of Ronnie Raymond and the Russian Mikhail Arkadin but controlled by the disembodied amnesiac mind of Martin Stein.
Fire Elemental
The Firestorm with Arkadin proved to be a transitional phase, as in 1989 Ostrander fundamentally changed the character of Firestorm by revealing that Firestorm was a "Fire Elemental".
Firestorm now became something of an environmental crusader, formed from Ronnie Raymond, Mikhail Arkadin, and Svarozhich, a Soviet clone of the previous Firestorm, but with a new mind. Professor Stein, no longer part of the composite at all, continued to play a role, but the focus was on this radically different character.
New artist Tom Mandrake would create a new look to match. It was during this phase that Firestorm met and befriended Sango and the Orishas, the elemental gods of Nigeria. He also met their chief deity and Sango's older brother Obatala, Lord of the White Cloth.
By the series' 100th issue, Stein learned that he was destined to be the true Fire Elemental and would have been being it not for Raymond also being there by circumstance. Raymond and Arkadin were returned to their old lives, and Stein as Firestorm was accidentally exiled to deep space in the process of saving the Earth. He thereafter spent many years traveling through space as a wanderer, returning to Earth only rarely.
After the transition to the elemental Firestorm, all of the main characters from the series vanished from the comics for some time after the cancellation of the Firestorm comic in 1990.
Raymond eventually returned in the pages of Extreme Justice.
Raymond, at the time undergoing treatment for leukemia, regained his original powers after a chemotherapy session. It took the combined might of the Justice League led by Captain Atom, and the returned elemental Firestorm, to restore Ronnie's health. Firestorm began to appear regularly in a number of DC titles, though lacking the guidance and knowledge necessary to use his skills wisely.
Firestorm was drafted by Batman into a "replacement" Justice League that was commissioned in case something befell the original team (in this case, being stranded in the distant past in "The Obsidian Age" storyline).
After the original team returned, Firestorm stayed on as a reserve member and participated in events such as a team-up with the Justice Society of America (in JLA/JSA: Virtue and Vice) and the intercompany crossover JLA/Avengers. He was also briefly a member of the Power Company.
Jason Rusch
In 2004, DC revived the Firestorm comic for the second time, with writer Dan Jolley and artist Chris Cross, but instead of the original Firestorm, Ronnie Raymond, there was a new protagonist; the teenager Jason Rusch.
Jason was a 17-year-old living in Detroit who wanted nothing more than to escape his home city. He lived with his father, who had turned abusive after he lost his hand in an industrial accident. His mother left the family sometime after the accident.
With the loss of a job he needed for college tuition, Jason turned to a local thug for money, accepting a job as a courier. It was on that job that he encountered the Firestorm Matrix, searching for a new host after Ronnie Raymond's death. In the aftermath, Jason struggled to cope with his new identity and powers—a struggle that led to the death of the man who had hired him.
Jason Rusch / Martin Stein
In the 2006 miniseries Infinite Crisis, it was revealed that Martin Stein, alive in space as the "Elemental Firestorm", had sensed the presence of Jason Rusch within the Firestorm Matrix, but was unaware of Ronnie Raymond's death. When Jason, as Firestorm, was gravely wounded in the line of duty, Stein linked with him in a variation of the merge, promising Jason a new Firestorm body to let him return into battle (although Martin had been unable to save Mick) and asking him about Ronnie's fate.
Accepting Martin's proposal, Jason asked Stein to become the permanent second member of the Firestorm Matrix. Sensing his "errors" (including Mick's death) were the result of his youth and lack of experience, he sought the experience and maturity of Stein. Stein refused at first, but later accepted Jason's request, thus ensuring both a new Firestorm body and the reconstruction of human bodies for both Rusch and Stein.
It was revealed in Infinite Crisis that if the Multiverse had survived up to the present, Jason would have been a native of Earth-Eight.
Jason Rusch / Firehawk
As the storyline jumped ahead one year (and the series itself was now re-titled as Firestorm the Nuclear Man from issue #23 on), Professor Stein has mysteriously vanished, and Jason Rusch has been merging with Firehawk to become Firestorm, allowing him to use her powers as well.
The two decided to look for Stein together. Stein had been kidnapped and tortured by the Pupil, a former teaching assistant of Stein's. Flanked by the D.O.L.L.I.s, a group of cyborg soldiers of limited cognitive ability, the Pupil (formerly known as Adrian Burroughs) questioned the nearly dead Stein about the secrets of the universe.
Jason and Lorraine, along with the mysterious teleporter Gehenna, freed the captured Stein and restored him to full health. Jason is a college freshman at New York City's Columbus University and seems to have ties with Dani Sharpe, a member of the senior staff at LexCorp.
The Firestorm team of Jason and Firehawk made several appearances across the DC Comics Universe before the search for Martin Stein ended. This included dealing with the latest OMAC and teaming up with Superman in the "Back in Action" story arc in Action Comics.
Firehawk later introduced Jason to Pozhar, a Russian superhero who was once a part of the Firestorm Matrix; together, the trio takes on a newly reborn Tokamak. This series ended with Firestorm the Nuclear Man #35 (April 2007).
Jason Rusch / Ronnie Raymond
In the 2009–2010 Blackest Night miniseries, Ronnie Raymond is called by a black power ring to join the Black Lantern Corps. Like other Black Lanterns, the undead Firestorm mimics the personality of Ronnie Raymond, often wisecracking and exhibiting other stereotypical teenage behavior.
In the 2010–2011 Brightest Day miniseries, Ronnie Raymond arrives at Jason Rusch's apartment with Professor Stein and Ray Palmer to attend Gehenna's funeral.
When Ronnie is actually unable to remember Gehenna's name, Jason angrily lashes out and punches him in the face. This causes the two young men to merge into Firestorm, and they begin arguing inside the Matrix.
Palmer manages to separate Jason and Ronnie, but not before the Firestorm matrix causes a huge explosion. It is revealed that Deathstorm intends to create enough emotional instability between Ronnie and Jason that the Matrix will trigger another Big Bang, thereby destroying all life in the universe. Ronnie and Jason must find a way to contain their Firestorm matrix from the explosion in less than 90 days.
After the events of the 2011 Flashpoint storyline, The New 52 reality altered Firestorm's personal history to the point of it being completely restarted. Ronnie Raymond is now introduced as a high school senior and the captain of the football team. During a terrorist attack on their school, classmate Jason Rusch produces a vial given to him by Professor Stein, which contains the "God Particle", one of Stein's creations.
The God Particle transforms both Jason and Ronnie into Firestorm, and the two teens briefly battle each other before accidentally merging into a hulking creature known as the Fury.
Sharing the identity of Firestorm, with Ronnie being the brawn and Jason being the brains, Firestorm is considered for recruitment into the Justice League along with several other heroes.
DC Rebirth
In the Watchmen sequel Doomsday Clock, Firestorm becomes a subject of controversy after claims arise stating that he was created by the American government. Firestorm profanely denounces the "Superman Theory" and insults his Russian counterpart Pozhar, much to the dismay of Martin Stein.
Firestorm subsequently becomes embroiled in a fight with several Russian superheroes before appearing to inadvertently turn a crowd of civilian protesters into a glass (a feat previously deemed beyond his capabilities). Firestorm flees with the body of an affected child and is found in hiding at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine by Superman.
With Superman's encouragement, Firestorm returns the child to normal. Firestorm and Superman return to the affected crowd and are engaged by the Russian military. The area then becomes engulfed in an explosion of blue light. Subsequent discoveries reveal that the 'Superman Theory' is actually partially correct, as Stein deliberately engineered the creation of Firestorm to make himself a superhuman, even if Raymond genuinely had no idea of this until recently.
Powers and abilities
Firestorm has the ability to rearrange molecular or particle structures of any substance into most anything else, creating different atomic structures of equal mass. He can transmute the basic composition of an object (e.g., transmuting lead into gold) and can also change its shape or form at will. Much like Green Lantern's limitations, Firestorm can only create items whose workings are understood by the "driver" of the Firestorm Matrix, through he can make more complex sentient constructs out of the Matrix's energies. Unlike Green Lantern's creations, Firestorm's alterations are permanent unless he reverses them.
Initially, he could not affect organic matter without painful, even lethal, feedback (i.e., fatal biophysical disruption or even localized particle motion phenomena like extreme changes in the weather). It was later revealed that Firestorm could always change organic matter, but opted not to. As Jason Rusch became Firestorm, however, this weakness appeared to have dissipated. With old and new variations, the organic limitation does not extend to his own person, as its users can molecularly change their driver self at will, allowing them to regenerate lost or damaged bodily tissue, boost immune systems, shape-shift, increase physical capabilities and survive indefinitely without food, sleep, water or air.
Capacities as such produce superhuman levels of strength, durability, stamina and resistance to injury great enough to challenge the New Gods—the likes of Orion, Lashina, or an empowered Kalibak—or surviving the rigors of outer space and sitting near the inner corona above the sun's photosphere without discomfort.
Firestorm's power has been stated by Prof. Stein to be theoretically infinite, harnessing the spark of creation, the Big Bang itself. However, infinite power runs the risk of burning out its host.
While the Firestorm Matrix can be utilized by a singular host driver—as was the case with Ronnie, Stein, and Rusch—it is not recommended. The Matrix functions best with two people, a pilot and secondary, to comprehend and master it. Martin instructed Rusch on how to study current and potential powers available to them within the Matrix and to manually adjust them on the fly at a later date. Its main source of energy stemmed from the ambient stellar energies of native stars and suns but could also use its co-pilot as a power source, though they will burn out over time and genetically disintegrate if not properly adjusted to its power.
The merging aspect of the Matrix can enable outside fusions which assimilate any inherent abilities these others might possess. However, this can diminish its effectiveness and stability. Rusch has shown he can spontaneously warp himself and others he had previously merged with to his specific location, triggering the neural pathway connection and allowing the gestalt to access each other's knowledge and memories to better utilize Firestorm's capabilities.
Users of the Firestorm Matrix can access a type of ancestral memory from the continuum of past Matrix users, allowing them to access the latest knowledge of the atoms comprising it. This also translates into a form of time-space sight in which the Matrix user can glimpse the past, present, future, and alternate lives of every other Firestorm throughout reality using a collective of subatomic wormholes which exist as a part of the Matrix. This power is too complex to properly control; thus, it has been highly unreliable as an ability.
The driver can fly at supersonic speeds in an atmosphere and reach escape velocities. The driver can also adjust the driver's body's size or pull and enlarge others from the subatomic universe at will, Rusch having once dragged Ray Palmer from his microscopic size to the natural world while on Apokolips. Manipulation of the self at the subatomic level allows the driver to become intangible and pass through solid objects. This allowed Rusch to communicate with John Stewart and sift through his mind telepathically after he had been taken over by the void beast. Firestorm is also adept at absorbing and redistributing radiation or energy both harmlessly and productively (such as in Green Lantern: Circle of Fire #7, having both absorbed Zeta Radiation from Adam Strange's body and repurposed it to turn a universe-destroying quasar back onto itself and absorb the fallout from a massive nuclear detonation).) He can generate destructive or concussive blasts of nuclear energy, through which he can also channel his transmogrification powers.
While the Matrix grants the fusers unique powers, it can also accidentally bestow them on individuals caught in the Matrix by mistake. One example is Nanette Phaedon, wife of the late Allen Phaedon, who gained the ability to change her quantum state for size-shifting and flight by her own will. Following Raymond's resurrection during Brightest Day, Firestorm gained the ability to switch "drivers" between Ronnie and Jason at will; before that, only the active driver was in control, with the dormant consciousness only able to advise the other on what action to take. One of the faults of a Firestorm fusion is that the stronger psyche will have dominance of the Matrix's power, such as when Jason fused with Luis Salvador who overpowered him from the passenger seat of the Matrix.
During The New 52, the Firestorm Matrix could be shared through multiple users at a time. Users could fuse and become stronger, but more unstable. The entity formed between Ronnie and Jason when using the Matrix in tandem created a nuclear being called "the Fury". It was also shown that The Matrix shares a kinship to the Quantum Field in some way, enabling Firestorm users to derive its power for subatomic transmutation and manipulation. Some believe it is key to the fabled God particle theory. Its merging properties can place a large burden on the user; Firestorm runs the risk of reaching critical mass and detonating. At worst, the fusion of too many users in the Matrix could trigger a second Big Bang.
⚡ Happy 🎯 Heroclix 💫 Friday! 👽
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A year of the shows and performers of the Bijou Planks Theater.
Secret Identities:
Ronald Roy "Ronnie" Raymond
Dr. Martin Stein
Dr. Mikhail Denisovitch Arkadin
Jason Thomas Rusch
Publisher: DC
First appearance: Firestorm the Nuclear Man #1 (March 1978)
Created by: Gerry Conway (Writer)
Al Milgrom (Artist)
" All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green. "
..........Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ... ( 1749 - 1832 ).
.....German writer, physicist.
In 1932 the physicists John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton, at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge, devised a technique for bombarding atomic nuclei with protons (hydrogen nuclei) that had been accelerated in a powerful electric field. The aim of these attempts to 'split the atom' was to explore the basic composition of matter.
Scientists had been theorising for some time about what atoms were like and how they behaved. The Swiss, Heinrich Greinacher, published a paper in 1921 on how such an experiment might work in practice - Cockcroft and Walton were the first to conduct those experiments successfully.
Experiments to investigate atoms and sub-atomic particles required huge pieces of apparatus to generate the high voltages needed. The growth of this experimental apparatus started in 1930, when Cockcroft and Walton developed a voltage-multiplying circuit that used capacitors (components used to store energy) to produce high voltage direct current (DC) from a much lower alternating current (AC). They erected a column of rectifier diodes (which allow the electrical current to move forwards but prevent it from moving back again) and capacitors to produce a DC voltage four times greater than the AC voltage.
These experiments showed that the atomic nucleus was not an indivisible and basic unit, but had its own internal structure. This included the newly-revealed sub-atomic particles which were 'broken out' of the nucleus by these experiments. This growing understanding of atomic structure and of atomic disintegration led during the 1930s directly to ideas for atomic power and the atomic bomb.
The machine shown here is the cascade generator, built by Philips of Eindhoven in 1937, and installed in the Cavendish Laboratory. It was designed to produce the-then high voltage (up to 1.25 million volts) required to accelerate the particles.
During the Second World War the machine was used to investigate the properties of uranium and plutonium as a contribution to the Manhattan Project which manufactured the first atomic bombs. It was succeeded by a more efficient American-designed cyclotron, which itself was obsolescent by the end of the war.
Cockcroft and Walton were recognised for their pioneering work in this field in 1951 when they won the Nobel Prize for Physics. Much-refined (and miniaturised) Cockcroft-Walton circuits are still used in particle accelerators. They also are used in everyday electronic devices that require high voltages, such as X-ray machines, cathode-ray tube television sets, microwave ovens and photocopiers.
The Science Museum in South Kensington, London, acquired the Cockcroft-Walton Voltage Multiplier in 1982.
This is a clearer version of a colour image I posted a number of years ago.
Thanks to close-up images of the Sun obtained during Solar Orbiter’s perihelion passage of October 2022, solar physicists have seen how fleeting magnetic fields at the solar surface build up into the solar atmosphere.
The outer solar atmosphere is known as the solar corona. It is termed ‘quiet’ when there is little appreciable solar activity such as flares or coronal mass ejections. How the quiet corona reaches a temperature of a million °C when the surface is just at ~6000 °C is a long-running mystery.
Although the action of magnetic fields has long been suspected, the nature of the magnetic processes responsible has never been fully understood. These new images of the quiet Sun show how loops of million-degree gas – which form the building blocks of the solar corona – are associated with fleeting 100-km-sized magnetic field patches on the solar surface.
The images show the view from two of Solar Orbiter’s instruments. The yellow image was taken by the Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI) and shows clearly the arch-like hot loops of plasma that reach up into the solar corona.
The coronal loops are apparently linked to scattered concentrations of the small-scale magnetic field concentrations on the surface, often with mixed-polarity configuration. This complex arrangement and the temporal evolution of these small magnetic field patches play a role in the building of the million-degree corona.
These observations capture surface magnetic structures and coronal features at almost the same high spatial resolution of ~200 km, allowing the data from the two instruments to be closely compared. With these unique data, solar physicists now have a window to investigate the role of the small-scale magnetic fields in the building of solar corona.
Like the perihelion pass that gave these results, Solar Orbiter is currently preparing for another close pass of the Sun on 7 October 2023. On that day, the spacecraft will get as close as 43 million km to the Sun – i.e., closer to the Sun than the innermost planet Mercury. This allows Solar Orbiter to view the Sun in precise detail, revealing the previously unseen small-scale processes that appear to drive so much of the Sun’s hot atmosphere. This allows Solar Orbiter to view the Sun in precise detail, revealing the previously unseen small-scale processes that appear to drive so much of the Sun’s hot atmosphere.
Solar Orbiter is a space mission of international collaboration between ESA and NASA, operated by ESA. This new result is reported in the paper 'Fleeting small-scale surface magnetic fields build the quiet-Sun corona' by L. P. Chitta et al, published in Astrophysical Journal Letters 5 October 2023.
Credits: ESA & NASA/Solar Orbiter/ EUI team
The famous photo showing Einstein with tongue out: "Einsteins Zunge"
Nach dem Mord an der zweiten Schwester im psychiatrischen Sanatorium:
Inspektor: "Der Mörder?"
Oberschwester: "Bitte Herr Inspektor - der arme Mensch ist doch krank"
Inspektor: Also gut: Der Täter?"
Oberschwester: "Ernst Heinrich Ernesti. Wir nennen ihn Einstein"
Inspektor: "Warum?"
Oberschwester: "Weil er sich für Einstein hält"
Part of "res noscenda note notiz sketch skizze material sammlung collection entwurf überlegung gedanke brainstorming musterbogen schnittmuster zwischenbilanz bestandsaufnahme rückschau vorschau" // Empty Padded ~ LeerGefüllt - Waiting Time at Work - Left handed drawings and writings on the empty left pages of my prompter`s book: Soufflierbuch "Die Physiker The physicists" (Friedrich Dürrenmatt) Seite 6
DMC-GH3 - P1050761 - 2015-06-28 panasonic lumix
#zunge #professor #einstein #tongue #thema #themenkreis #work #arbeit #handwerk #theater #theatre #probe #rehearsal #performance #improvisation #fermate #entwurf #face #gesicht #portrait #porträt #abstrakt #körper #body #schriftbild #schaubild #schnittmuster #maske #mask #narrenturm #blue #blau #brille #glasses #red #rot #maigrün #szene
Albert Einstein:
"Only the stupid need organization, the genius controls the chaos"
"Ordnung braucht nur der Dumme, das Genie beherrscht das Chaos"
The 6 drawings from my prompter`s book merged into one drawing with white transfer paper. Mit weißem Durchschlagpapier alle 6 Zeichnungen auf ein Blatt transferiert.
Albert Einstein was a passionate violin player. He played Mozart sonatas together with Queen Elisabeth of Belgium.
Anecdote: While playing with Fritz Kreisler they went out of sync. Kreisler turned to Einstein: "What`s the matter, professor? Can´t you count?".
So the actor who plays the physicist Georg Eisler, who works for secret service and personates as Ernst Heinrich Ernesti who pretends that he thinks that he is Einstein, has a violin on stage.
Albert Einstein war ein passionierter Geigenspieler. Er spielte Mozarts Violinsonaten mit Königin Elisabeth von Belgien.
Anekdote: Als er mit Fritz Kreisler spielte gerieten sie aus dem Takt. Eisler zu Einstein: "Was ist los, Professor? Können sie nicht zählen?"
Daher hat der Schauspieler, der den Physiker Georg Eisler spielt, der für den Geheimdienst arbeitet und sich als Ernst Heinrich Ernesti ausgibt, der vorgibt sich für Albert Einstein zu halten, eine Geige auf der Bühne.
Part of: Putting on Paper ~ zu Papier bringen
Diptych:
DMC-G2 - P1860548 - 2014-11-20
DMC-G2 - P1860550 - 2014-11-20
Fifty images in this season of snowflakes so far! And with all that, we haven’t really seen a good trigonal snowflake until now. Let’s fix that!
Amidst an array of small colourful plates and broad columns, I occasionally find a snowflake where the growth on even and odd sides is synced, but not together. This three-fold symmetry is puzzling, but it does have an answer – at least in theory! Because these snowflakes are so uncommon, it’s hard to practically test the ideas that are described in this paper from Ken Libbrecht, physicist at CalTech: arxiv.org/abs/0911.4267 (you’d have to be REALLY geeky to read that)
The basic assertion is that the aerodynamic qualities of a snowflake will affect its growth. If a snowflake faces the same direction without tumbling about, certain facets will grow faster than others. If the crystal is “stable” in the air, it might turn out to be something like this. Because the air is so chaotic and a snowflake isn’t generally designed to be as aerodynamic as an air plane, these are fairly uncommon with this extreme degree of disparity between side lengths. I’ve seen much more common occurrences of snowflakes with slight differences that create three-fold symmetry instead of six-fold, but they could hardly be called “triangle flakes”.
Since many of the snowflakes from this snowfall, photographed with a pre-production Lumix S1, were able to create thin film interference colours, I should have been surprised that this triangular snowflake had the same – the icing on the cake! If you want more info on this type of strange colour, here are the pages from my book Sky Crystals that describe it: skycrystals.ca/pages/optical-interference-pages.jpg
This crystal also shows us how inward crystal growth “smooths out” the corners. There are two inset rounded triangles that you can see intersecting with the colour areas – fainter in contrast because they are on the reverse side of the snowflake. If the crystal goes through an event where the outer edge thickens, it will grow inward from this thicker edge and as it grows inward it becomes rounder. Hexagon centers will readily create circular shapes, but a trigonal snowflake would take a lot longer to reach a circle.
These orange colours are far less frequent with thin film interference, as there are fewer distances of separation that can create them. Hard to say exactly what the thickness of the bubbles were, or the ice on either side, but it’s a welcome sight. As if a Vick’s cough drop became a snowflake, this little gem is a welcome remedy for the frustrations of a cold winter day.
Also, I might not have mentioned it… but the hardcover of Sky Crystals is officially SOLD OUT! 3000 copies sold direct to customers without retail presence, I’m humbled and honoured. I may make a sequel in future years, but there is an eBook version available that has the entire photographic workflow used to create these images here: skycrystals.ca/product/sky-crystals-unraveling-the-myster...
I was in Rome for a workshop, ending just at sunset time - so I brought with me my photographic gear, hoping to have a chance to take some good capture before rushing to the railway station to take my train home (incidentally, it has been quite a busy day - got up at 5 am and back home at 11 pm).
Theoretical physicists and mathematicians often think that beauty is truth. Here I want to suggest that truth is beauty - at the very least for the mere fact that, after all, it is true. Possibly they may be just two sides of the same coin :-)
This is a partial view of the Square of the Bocca della Verità (= Mouth of Truth) at sunset. Beyond the trees the Tiber flows, bathed in golden light. In the square the street lamps are still off, but the shades of the evening are already gathering. On the right you can see the round, graceful architecture of the Temple of Hercules Victor, 2. century B.C.; a bit on the left there is the Fountain of the Tritons, completed in 1715 by Carlo Francesco Bizzaccheri.
Above the timeless relics of the story of Rome hangs the timeless beauty of a glorious sunset - courtesy of God, who alone knows what really truth and beauty are.
I have blended four HDR images derived from a 3-bracketing, -1.67 ev/0/+1.67 ev, generated and tonemapped with Luminance HDR 2.4.0 (Mantiuk06, Durand, Reinhard05, and Pattanaik operators; from the Pattanaik and Reinhard05 images I have taken only the sky, greatly contributing to the realistic rendering of that dramatic sunset).
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This image of John Tyndall has so much information contained within regarding sartorial, tonsorial and “barborial”, all denoting the fashions of a time! Who was John Tyndall? Did he write songs as well, or was he a wielder of the sword rather than the pen?
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Turns out he was more of a wielder of the mind, rather than sword or pen. There was some initial argument as to whether this was, in fact, John Tyndall – based on hair parting, facial features, facial hair, apparent age in various portraits, and the name J. Glastrich on the carte-de-visite itself. However, the consensus is that this is indeed physicist John Tyndall, professor of physics at London’s Royal Institution from 1853 to 1887. He was a very interesting fellow.
Domhnall Sioradáin provided us with a succinct biography:
Tyndall, from Leighlinbridge, Carlow, is remembered in Cork, in the Tyndall National Institute. He left Carlow at 18 to work for the Ordnance Survey around Munster, before moving to Preston. He is noted for his explanation of why the sky is blue (Rayleigh scattering), heat absorption by CO2 in the atmosphere, and the measurement of aerosols by scattering (Tyndall effect).
Photographers: Millard and Robinson
Collection: Invincibles cartes de visite Photographic Collection
Date: Around 1850?!
NLI Ref: NPA INV1
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When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking.
Albert Einstein
US (German-born) physicist (1879 - 1955)
Model is wearing a dress designed by Shaima
Model : Lena
Some theoretical astronomers and physicists have postulated that there are multiple universes.
Proving this theory is another thing, however. That is until now.
Amateur theoretician, Scott Holcomb, has created a method to look outside our universe for the first time using a combination of technologies that shall remain secret for the time being. After peer review and consultation with government regulators I hope to reveal to the world my methodology (as soon as I am released from the Institute for the Deranged).
This photo was taken by a Zenza Bronica S2 medium format film camera with a Nikkor-H 1:3.5 f=5 cm lens and Zenza Bronica 82mm L-1A filter using Kodak Portra 160 film, the negative scanned by an Epson Perfection V600 and digitally rendered with Photoshop.
James G. Van Allen (1914–2006) was a pioneering American space physicist at the University of Iowa, widely regarded as the "Father of Space Science". He is best known for his pivotal role in the discovery of the radiation belts circling Earth, which are now named the Van Allen radiation belts in his honor.
The Photo: 1970's - James Van Allen near the North Liberty Radio Observatory telescope which was used to track early University of Iowa spacecraft and to receive data transmissions from satellites.
The Letter: The handwritten note confirms his service, stating, "I am also a WWII veteran, having served for 17 months as a naval officer in the South Pacific 1942-43 and 1944". The letter is dated January 27, 1997.
Profession: Van Allen was a pioneer in space science and head of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Iowa for decades.
Major Contributions: Using instruments aboard the first successful American satellite, Explorer 1, launched in 1958, and subsequent probes like Explorer 3 and Pioneer 3, he discovered the existence of two (and sometimes more) doughnut-shaped belts of energetic charged particles trapped by Earth's magnetic field.
Legacy: His discovery initiated the field of magnetospheric physics and was a critical step for planning safe crewed space exploration. He was also instrumental in developing scientific instruments for numerous planetary missions, including the first flights to Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn.
Key Contributions and Career - Discovery of the Van Allen Belts: Using instruments he designed (including a Geiger counter) aboard the first successful U.S. artificial satellite, Explorer 1, in 1958, Van Allen's team detected zones of intense charged particle radiation trapped by Earth's magnetic field. This groundbreaking discovery initiated the field of magnetospheric physics.
Early Rocketry: Van Allen was instrumental in developing early methods for high-altitude research, including the "Rockoon" system, which involved launching sounding rockets from high-altitude balloons to carry scientific instruments above most of the atmosphere.
Planetary Exploration: Throughout his career, he provided particle detectors for 24 space missions, including the first flights to Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn. Data from his instruments on Pioneer 10 and 11 provided the first evidence of intense radiation belts and large magnetospheres around Jupiter and Saturn.
Education and Legacy: Van Allen spent the majority of his career as a professor and chairman of the physics department at the University of Iowa, where he involved numerous students in his research, educating an entire generation of space scientists.
Honors and Recognition:
He received numerous prestigious awards for his work, including:
The National Medal of Science (1987)
The Crafoord Prize (1989)
NASA's Lifetime Achievement Award (1994)
The Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1978)
His work fundamentally advanced humanity's understanding of the space environment and laid a critical path for future space exploration.
James G. Van Allen was a decorated U.S. Navy veteran of World War II. He was commissioned as a Lieutenant in November 1942 and served for 16 months in the Pacific Fleet.
His military service was closely tied to his scientific expertise:
Development of the Proximity Fuze: Before active duty, he worked at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) on developing a crucial, top-secret radio proximity fuze for anti-aircraft shells, which dramatically improved their accuracy.
Combat Service: He then volunteered for active sea duty, serving as an ordnance and gunnery specialist and combat observer on several destroyers and the battleship USS Washington.
Decorations: For his actions and contributions in the Pacific, particularly during the Battle of the Philippine Sea, he was awarded four battle stars and eventually promoted to Lieutenant Commander. Van Allen himself later described his naval service as "far and away, the most broadening experience of my lifetime".
LINK to video - 1950s Dr. James Van Allen Interviewed - www.youtube.com/watch?v=St4W3RBK1Wo
LINK to video - James Van Allen: Flights of Discovery - www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fij6E1ZdAKs
The Italian physicist Galileo Galilei is credited with being the first to measure speed by considering the distance covered and the time it takes.
In mathematical terms, the speed v is defined as the magnitude of the velocity v, that is, the derivative of the position r with respect to time:
The story of the Subway brand started more than 50 years ago when Dr. Peter Buck, a nuclear physicist, changed the life of a college student with a few simple words, “Let’s open a submarine sandwich shop.”
It was Peter Buck that gave college freshman Fred DeLuca the idea to open a submarine sandwich shop to help pay his tuition. Peter provided an initial investment of $1000, and a business relationship was forged that would change the landscape of the fast food industry and the lives of thousands.
The first store was opened in Bridgeport, Connecticut in August, 1965.
Today, the SUBWAY brand is the world's largest submarine sandwich chain with more than 44,000 locations around the world.
Looks like Putin isn't the only one with plans to dominate the world.
Ronald McNair was a churchgoing family man. He was also a physicist with a black belt in karate, and an astronaut. In 1984 he was part of the crew aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger. Among his scientific pursuits on that successful mission, he found time to play his saxophone in space, "a medley of songs designed to send a message of thankfulness and hope to all mankind."
We know these things because they're engraved on a granite wall next to his tomb. Unfortunately for Ronald McNair, he took a second trip aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger in 1986, its final, fatal mission.
Ronald McNair Astronaut Memorial.
McNair's death was a blow to his small South Carolina home town, which wanted to remember him. The granite wall went up in 1995. Placed in front of it was a life-size, smiling, bronze McNair wearing his Space Shuttle jumpsuit and holding a helmet. To complete the memorial plaza, in 2004 McNair was removed from his grave five miles away and re-entombed in a sarcophagus next to the statue. An "eternal flame" flickers in front of it, an old-style gas street lamp.
from roadsideamerica.com
'Every Thing Is Different'
Speak only ten minutes with a quantum physicist and you know that you know nothing.
Where you are and also where you go, is that what you see is not what you think it said. The reality that you believe in is just to see what you can. Nothing is what you think it is, nothing is firm yet everything seems to be real, if we focus our attention on it. All that is left is to pretend as if our reality, the absolute, as we did not know that we do not know. Maybe we look at the big, cracked hologram and it may eventually prove to someone that things will still be there, if we just do not focus our attention on it. Say once a few minutes with a quantum physicist..
.. but until he comes and has something new to report, I enjoy this beautiful work of electrons, quarks, baryons as it is and as I particularly like. - Do you also what you see?
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Ørstedsparken is a public park in central Copenhagen, Denmark. One in a series of parks which were laid out on the grounds of the old fortification ring after it was decommissioned in the 1870s, the park still retains elements from the old fortifications in its topography—a section of the moat now serve as an elongated lake and former bastions appear in the landscape as small hills. The park is named for the brothers Ørsted, the politician and jurist Anders Sandøe Ørsted, and the physicist Hans Christian Ørsted, who both are commemorated with monuments in the park. (Wikipedia)
The cockpit of the B-5 was a bit of a challenge. I drew inspiration from Mad Physicist and Corvin's work and I am pretty happy with the result.
Theodore von Kármán, a Hungarian-American physicist, was the first to describe the physical processes that create long chains of spiral eddies like the one shown above. Known as von Kármán vortices the patterns can form nearly anywhere that fluid flow is disturbed by an object. Since the atmosphere behaves like a fluid, the wing of an airplane, a bridge, even an island can trigger the distinctive phenomenon.
On May 22, 2013, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite captured this natural-color image of cloud vortices behind Isla Socorro, a volcanic island located in the Pacific Ocean. The island, which is located a few hundred kilometers off the west coast of Mexico and the southern tip of Baja California, is part of the Revillagigedo Archipelago.
Satellite sensors have spotted von Kármán vortices around the globe, including off of Guadalupe Island, near the coast of Chile, in the Greenland Sea, in the Arctic, and even next to a tropical storm.
NASA image courtesy Jeff Schmaltz, LANCE/EOSDIS MODIS Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC. Caption by Adam Voiland.
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Terra - MODIS
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This is my very favorite surrealist painting, Period! A search of image today, did help me discover the artist’s presence on the internet. It’s well worth a Google search to see more of his work and learn about his life. I discovered the title just today, as well.
* NOTE: In addition to being a phenomenal artist, Mr. Nguyen Dinh is a nuclear physicist with a Doctorate in that discipline!
In 1851, physicist Léon Foucault demonstrated the rotation of the Earth by his experiment conducted in the Panthéon, by constructing a 67 meter Foucault pendulum beneath the central dome. The original sphere from the pendulum was temporarily displayed at the Panthéon in the 1990s (starting in 1995) during renovations at the Musée des Arts et Métiers. The original pendulum was later returned to the Musée des Arts et Métiers, and a copy is now displayed at the Panthéon (wikipedia).
EXPLORED!!
CROATIA.
DUBROVNIK.
Summer break.
Jesuit Church - Dubrovniks most beautiful baroque complex
The baroque stairs connecting Gundulić Square with another square named after the great Dubrovnik physicist Ruđer Bošković are reminiscent of some etymologists who believe that the word baroque originated from the word shell. The one time venue of Shakespeares play Romeo and Juliet, the beautiful stairs very much resemble the ones leading to the Trinit? dei Monti Church in Rome from the Piazza di Spagna. Designed by the Roman architect Pietro Passalacque in 1738, the stairs lead to St Ignatius Church adjacent to the famous Jesuit school Collegium Ragusinum. The Church of St Ignatius - or the Jesuits, as the people of Dubrovnik call it - is the work of the famed Jesuit architect and painter Ignazio Pozzo, who worked on the church from 1699 to 1703.
The church was completed in 1725 and opened in 1729. The construction of both the Church and the Collegium began with the funds donated by a Jesuit from the Gundulić family, yet the donor had died before the designs were completed. The Collegium Ragusinum was actually founded because the people of Dubrovnik were dissatisfied with the Italian teachers with whom they often came into conflict. As soon as he was appointed, the Italian born head of the Dubrovnik diocese Beccadelli initiated the opening of the Jesuit Collegium in 1555.
The idea was realised as late as in 1658, after numerous problems with the ownership of the land had been solved. Namely, in order to build the Collegium and the Church, a large number of houses in the oldest part of the city had to be demolished. This complex is considered to be the finest Baroque set of buildings in Dubrovnik, and - according to many - in all of Dalmatia. It is thus not surprising that theatre directors at the Dubrovnik Summer Festival often use this venue as an open-air stage.
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The Heinrich-Hertz-Turm (named after the German physicist and Hamburg-born Heinrich Hertz) is a radio telecommunication tower and a famous landmark of Hamburg, Germany.
Designed by architect Fritz Trautwein, in co-operation with civil engineers Jörg Schlaich, Rudolf Bergermann and Fritz Leonhardt, it was built 1965–1968 for former Deutsche Bundespost (German Federal Post and Telecommunications Agency, now Deutsche Telekom's subsidiary Deutsche Funkturm GmbH) near Planten un Blomen (a city park). With an overall height of 279,2 m (916 ft) it is Hamburg's tallest building; it comprises a 204 m (670 ft) steel-enforced concrete lower section, topped by a 45 m (148 ft) steel-lattice tower and a three-segmented cylinder of about 30 m (98 ft), which supports various antennas.
There are eight concentric platforms stacked one above the other; starting at 128 m (420 ft) with the two-story observation (lower floor) and restaurant (upper floor) platform, served by two high-speed elevators. Above that at 150 m (492 ft) is the operations platform housing the workforce and equipment, and further up six differentially sized, smaller open platforms in same distances, populated with high-gain directional microwave radio relay antennas ("parabolic mirrors"). Number nine was added at 25 m height in July 2005.
From Wikipedia
And the 9 children (his 3 sons and the 6 sons of the new husband of his ex-wife) are playing flute ...
Der Physiker Moebius gibt vor, daß ihm König Salomo erscheine. "Ich kenne Salomo von Angesicht zu Angesicht. Er ist nicht mehr der große goldene König. - nackt und stinkend kauert er in meinem Zimmer als der arme König der Wahrheit und seine Psalmen sind schrecklich."
Und die 9 Buben (seine 3 Söhne und die 6 Söhne des 2. Ehemanns seiner Ex-Frau) spielen Blockflöte....
About the play by Friedrich Dürrenmatt and a brief summary: "Wikipedia English: "The Physicists"
The official trailer from the performance at Volkstheater Wien: "Die Physiker The Physicists"
soft pastels, hard pastels on Sennelier pastel cards 24x32 cm
DMC-G2 - P1860939 - 2014-11-26 / Moebius Salomon work in progress 3
Justinian chose physicist Isidore of Miletus and mathematician Anthemius of Tralles as architects; Anthemius, however, died within the first year of the endeavor. The construction is described in the Byzantine historian Procopius' On Buildings. The emperor had material brought from all over the empire – such as Hellenistic columns from the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, large stones from quarries in porphyry from Egypt, green marble from Thessaly, black stone from the Bosporus region, and yellow stone from Syria. More than ten thousand people were employed. This new church was contemporaneously recognized as a major work of architecture. The theories of Heron of Alexandria may have been utilized to address the challenges presented by building such an expansive dome over so large a space. The emperor, together with the Patriarch Menas, inaugurated the new basilica on 27 December 537 with much pomp. The mosaics inside the church were, however, only completed under the reign of Emperor Justin II (565–578).
Hagia Sophia was the seat of the Orthodox patriarch of Constantinople and a principal setting for Byzantine imperial ceremonies, such as coronations. Like other churches throughout Christendom, the basilica offered sanctuary from persecution to outlaws.
Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Per the lady who lives here she is a Quantum Physicist. Bus has a wood stove and solar panels. Outhouse in the back yard. Mogollon, New Mexico
Trinity Site is where the first atomic bomb was tested at 5:29:45 a.m. Mountain Time on July 16, 1945. The 19 kiloton explosion not only led to a quick end to the war in the Pacific but also ushered the world into the atomic age. All life on Earth has been touched by the event which took place here.
The 51,500-acre area was declared a national historic landmark in 1975. The Trinity site is open to the public 2x/year. The first weekend in April and October.
Points of interest include Ground Zero where the atomic bomb was placed on a 100-foot steel tower. A small monument now marks the spot. Visitors also see the McDonald ranch house where the world's first plutonium core for a bomb was assembled. The above photo is one of the observation walls at the Ranch.
At ground zero, Trinitite, the green, glassy substance found in the area, is still radioactive and must not be picked up.
Our visit there was very interesting. It's like going back in time. The Ranch house is filled photos
correspondence and other memorabilia from the most brilliant physicists in the world. I Even saw Schrodinger's cat.....He's mutated nine times from the radioactive fallout....LOL!
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“Physicists say we are made of stardust. Intergalactic debris and far-flung atoms, shards of carbon nanomatter rounded up by gravity to circle the sun. As atoms pass through an eternal revolving door of possible form, energy and mass dance in fluid relationship. We are stardust, we are man, we are thought. We are story.”
― Glenda Burgess, The Geography of Love
This temple in Como and Italy is dedicated to the Italian physicist Volta for inventing the battery in the 1800s
“The value of a man resides in what he gives and not in what he is capable of receiving.”
(Albert Einstein - German born American Physicist, Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921. 1879-1955)
This scarf has a hand embroidery done by ladies involved in the workshops that we have settled with GURIA, a Human Rights organisation fighting against the sexual exploitation of women and children, particularly those forced into prostitution and trafficking.
Each scarf is unique and made in silk saries provided by many women in Benaras who take this opportunity to get rid of pieces that they don't want to wear anymore.
Those fabrics carry many stories, most of them were brought in order to celebrate happy moments, festivals or parties and in some ways they still keep traces of that in their yarns...
RED HALO is a collection of household linen based in Benaras (Varanasi - India) providing work to people who were living with difficulties and education to children.
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Möbius zieht eine Show ab um seine Familie zu vergraulen:
"Ein Psalm Salomos, den Weltraumfahrern zu singen.
Wir hauten ins Weltall ab. Zu den Wüsten des Monds. Versanken in ihrem Staub. Lautlos verreckten manche schon da.
Doch die meisten verkochten in den Bleidämpfen des Merkurs, lösten sich auf in den Ölpfützen der Venus, und sogar auf dem Mars fraß uns die Sonne, donnernd, radioaktiv und gelb.
Jupiter stank, ein pfeilschnell rotierender Methanbrei, hing er so mächtig über uns, daß wir Ganymed vollkotzten. Saturn bedachten wir mit Flüchen.
Was dann weiter kam, nicht der Rede wert: Uranus, Neptun graugrünlich erfroren. Über Pluto und Transpluto fielen die letzten unanständigen Witze. Hatten wir doch längst die Sonne mit Sirius verwechselt, Sirius mit Kanopus, abgetrieben, trieben wir in die Tiefen hinauf einigen weißen Sternen zu, die wir gleichwohl nie erreichten, längst schon Mumien in unseren Schiffen verkrustet von Unrat - In den Fratzen kein Erinnern mehr - an die atmende Erde."
(Dürrenmatt, Friedrich: Die Physiker S.34, 35)
Moebius Salomo, work in progress 2
soft pastels, hard pastels on Sennelier pastel cards 24x32 cm
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''I'd give up my job as an Astro Physicist if I could take photo's like this'' !!
She arrived like someone from another time —adorned in celestial jewelry, butterfly rings fluttering at her fingers, and an easy, mischievous smile that hinted at mysteries she’d long since made peace with. On April 1st, 2025, at The Interval of the Long Now in San Francisco—a place built for slow thinking and long perspectives—Sara Imari Walker sat across from me and began to unravel the universe.
Sara is one of those rare thinkers who makes the cosmos feel not vast and indifferent, but intimate—alive, even. A physicist by training, she spends her days probing one of the most elusive riddles in science: what exactly is life, and how does it begin? But that’s just the start. Her work reaches far beyond biology or chemistry. Through her development of assembly theory—a framework that attempts to quantify how complex structures come into being—she is carving out nothing less than a new science of emergence.
You get the sense, speaking with her, that the big questions aren’t intimidating to her. They’re magnetic. She describes the universe not as a machine grinding out configurations of matter, but as something more like a poem—or a growing organism. She believes that life is not a cosmic accident but a phenomenon that the universe is, in some sense, biased toward. And while that might sound like philosophy, in Sara’s hands it becomes a set of testable hypotheses, a roadmap for exploring alien biospheres, both real and imagined.
Her background is as eclectic as her intellect. Born with one foot in physics and the other in philosophy, she has made it her mission to collapse the artificial walls between disciplines. She studied theoretical physics in graduate school, but her thinking has always veered into the biological, the informational, the metaphysical. She joined the astrobiology program at Arizona State University, where she now serves as a professor, and she is one of the central figures in NASA’s efforts to define and detect life beyond Earth.
But titles and institutions can only gesture at what makes her work so resonant. Sara is, above all, a synthesizer. She pulls from thermodynamics, evolutionary theory, information science, and even metaphysics to offer a new view of life—not just as a biological category, but as a fundamental feature of reality. Her work has led her to propose that life’s most essential feature is not replication, but memory—systems that retain the past in order to shape the future. It’s a view of the universe that is not frozen and fixed, but open-ended, historical, and creative.
During our session, she picked up a small globe—a prop for the photo, perhaps, but in her hand it became something more: a symbol of the fragility and improbability of everything we know. She looked at it thoughtfully, then glanced back with that same bright smile. “It’s all just matter,” she said, “but not just. It’s matter with history.”
It’s that poetic clarity that defines her. In a field often defined by technical jargon or reductionist thinking, Sara insists on seeing the whole system—and on asking the hardest questions with both rigor and imagination. She’s as comfortable discussing quantum mechanics as she is quoting Octavia Butler, and somehow, in her presence, the boundaries between those worlds dissolve.
The photograph we made together captures something essential about her. Dressed not in the muted tones of the academic, but in bold textures—dark velvet, spiked bracelets, a necklace that looked like a model of spacetime itself—she evokes both the depth of space and the strange beauty of the things that emerge from it. It’s not just an aesthetic choice. It’s a declaration: that science can be sensuous, that big ideas deserve beauty.
Sara Imari Walker is building nothing less than a new cosmology—one in which life is not a footnote to physics, but the main event. She invites us to see ourselves not as anomalies, but as participants in a much larger unfolding. In her universe, we are not isolated observers, but expressions of the same generative force that built stars, molecules, and meaning. And in that universe, there is room for both wonder and understanding.
"Physicists say we are made of stardust. Intergalactic debris and far-flung atoms, shards of carbon nanomatter rounded up by gravity to circle the sun. As atoms pass through an eternal revolving door of possible form, energy and mass dance in fluid relationship. We are stardust, we are man, we are thought. We are story."
— Glenda Burgess
I posted this photograph and text in journeyofaphotograph.com/
It is a really interesting collaborative project. You should check it out!
De revolutionibus
Last February 15th was the 450 aniversary of the bird of Galileo Galilei (15 February 1564 – 8 January 1642). As everybody knows Galileo was an Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer and philospher. In other words, he was a Renaissance scientist who played a major role in the scientific revolution. Galileo’s championing of heliocentrism was controversial within his lifetime; he was investigated by the Roman Inquisition, which concluded that heliocentrism was false and contrary to scripture, placing works advocating the Copernican system on the index of banned books and forbidding Galileo from advocating heliocentrism. He was tried by the Holy Office, then found “vehemently suspect of heresy”, was forced to recant, and spent the rest of his life under house arrest. His achievements include improvements to the telescope and consequent astronomical observations and support for Copernicanism.
Nicolaus Copernicus (19 February 1473 – 24 May 1543) was also a Renaissance mathematician and astronomer who formulated Heliocentrism, a scientific model of the universe which placed the Sun, rather than the Earth, at the center. The publication of Copernicus’ book, De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres), just before his death in 1543, is considered a major event in the history of science. It began the “Copernican Revolution” that resolved the issue of planetary retrograde motion by arguing that such motion was only perceived and apparent, rather than real…
The solar system has the Sun in its center with all the planets spining in eliptical orbits around it. The Earth’s orbit is the motion of the Earth around the Sun, from an average distance of 149.59787 million kilometers away. A complete orbit of the Earth around the Sun occurs every 365.2563666 mean solar days (1 sidereal year). This motion gives an apparent movement of the Sun with respect to the stars at a rate of about 1°/day eastward, as seen from Earth. On average it takes 24 hours—a solar day—for Earth to complete a full rotation about its axis relative to the Sun so that the Sun returns to the meridian. The orbital speed of the Earth around the Sun averages about 30 km/s (108,000 km/h). Assuming Earth’s orbit around the sun to be circular, the “journey” of the Earth in one year is roughly 940 million kilometers (585 million miles).
Some years ago I read the book “The Sleepwalkers: A History of Man’s Changing Vision of the Universe.” by Arthur Koestler, an interesting informative approach to the history of Astronomy. In the book, the author stated that the highly technical “De Revolutionibus” was ignored by 16th-century readers.
More recently, it came to my eyes an incredible “journey” of more than 30 years carried out by Owen Gingerich, a former Research Professor of Astronomy and of the History of Science at Harvard University, and a senior astronomer emeritus at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. He spent more than 30 years of his life hunting down every known surviving copy of Nicolaus Copernicus’s 1543 opus, “De revolutionibus” [see www.boston.com/news/education/higher/articles/2004/04/13/...]
His journey began as “a smallish project” to prove whether Copernicus’s work was or wasn’t read. Gingerich tracked who first owned each book, deciphered notes that studious readers – including Galileo Galilei – had penned in the margins, and plotted each book’s travels to form a picture of what the scientific network of the day looked like. His exhaustive research proved beyond question that “De Revolutionibus” was, indeed, a hard book to put down.
Needless to say that I have ordered Gingerich book and I am eager to read it!
As most of the formers contributors to this “Journey of a Photograph” when I received the parcel and look at the picture inside it, I thought of a journey in a train. The trees in that picture inspired me and, after harvesting several drink cans converted to pinhole cams to register solargraphs during a holiday trip to my homeland in Asturias (North coast of Spain) I was lucky enough as to have manage to point in the right direction.
In the solargraph you see a centenary oak covered by the sun trails from the 15th of August 2013 to the 7th of February 2014. When I opened the can I found some water inside wetting the sensible black and white paper. This is, most probably, the responsible of producing those blue spots in the bottom and the “peculiar” brownish color. After letting it dry in the dark, I scanned the image formed during those months to get (after minimum post process in PS) the image you see above.
Can you image the distance we all traverse in our lives without even noticing it? A long Journey based on “Revolutionibus”
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