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two thoughts: i do this drive-by shot maybe four times a week and never get it centered. until today. i don't think that's meaningful, just useful since i don't want to actually pull over in winter. so here we have another one of my over-used motifs. thought 2, entirely random, was that naming a tunnel after lincoln was pretty insulting if you compare it to the george washington bridge. driving thru the lincoln tunnel is like driving thru the port authority bathrooms, circa 1972. the only remotely awesome thing about the lincoln tunnel is that it was built under a river. well, maybe that's the answer. beauty is only river deep.
Lumière en oxymore,
À trop vouloir la lumière,
D’abord était-ce ma lumière ?
Ou la lumière des autres ?
Qui fomentait ma paix,
Après tout qu’importe,
J’ai perdu la tête…
Je me suis perdu dans l’affluence,
Cette lumière est devenue ténèbres,
Je retourne à ma thébaïde,
Je ne parle plus,
Je n’interagis plus,
Je vous observe neutre comme un photon quantique,
Je suis là, je ne suis pas là…
Insaisissable, je suis insaisissable pour le commun,
Je suis un quantum d’énergie sur la toile du vide,
De votre vide.
Michaël Overberg
Schrodinger's cat is a famous theoretical thought experiment in quantum physics
If even remotely interested......
There's something called The Copenhagen Interpretation that posits that "things" at the subatomic level don't have any determined properties, only possibilities. A particle can be in two places at the same time, the atom can be in both an excited and unexcited state at the same time, and a photon can be both a particle and a wave.
What determines what we see is our measurement and observation,
Then all the probabilities collapse into one, the one being observed.
Schrodinger wasn't a fan of that theory, so he devised a thought experiment to show how absurd it would be to apply to the gross world of stuff.
He said imagine we put a cat in a box. Also in the box is a radioactive particle which might, or might not begin to decay and emit radiation. If it does, there's a gieger counter which will trigger the release of a noxious gas that will kill the cat.
Then we put a lid on the box.
But until someone opens the box, the cat is both alive and dead.
That's hugely oversimplified, but it's the layman's gist.
This little cat was sitting under a curb on a recessed sewer grate.
So,, is it coming or going or both?
I'm happy to say it was alive. ;-))
At the border of the high Padan Plain, just at the feet of the first line of the Prealps, there lays a string of five lakes. They draw a line that is the base of the so-called Larian triangle, i.e. the triangle-shaped mountainous land between the two arms of the Lake Como (also called Lario). These lakes, often called the Lakes Briantei, or the Brianza Lakes (from the name of that land, Brianza), are way smaller than the Lario and the other great lakes of Northern Italy - just a string of beads in the higher plain - but they share the beauty of their larger cousins, although on a smaller, more intimate scale. I have always felt quite strongly the fascination of their common origin, which dates from the end of the Würm glaciation, some 11,700 years ago. I can easily see in my mind the enormous, mighty glaciers from the Alps flowing beyond the last mountains and spreading through the high plain. A powerful sight, indeed... Yet all that glory was deemed to end as the climate was becoming warmer, and eventually the glaciers began to recede, leaving behind deep ditches and huge semilunar terminal morains. You can easily fill in the story - the melting waters, the swamps, the debris from the looming mountains, and, eventually, the lakes.
Well, this is not a lesson in geology - I am by no means an expert, just a guy who perceives geology in a deeply emotional way (quite possibly a trait acquired from my late father, who was a passionate amateur mineral and fossil prospector).
I have begun a photographic exploration of those relics of the last glaciation, the Lakes Briantei. At sunrise, of course.
My first session was at the Lake Annone, the largest one, that is divided in two basins by a narrow peninsula. I limited myself to the Western basin, mostly looking Eastward.
This is a detail landscape showing, if needed, how a grand landscape may have smaller, complete landscapes nestled within itself. There could be many landscapes-within-a-landscape, every photographer might perceive and discover new ones. I loved this detail, as a gap between the mountains lets the eye run further and further away, following the outlines of distant mountains as the air becomes more and more transfixed with golden light, until it reaches the lone, elegant outline of the Pizzo dei Tre Signori (= "Peak of the Three Lords", a name stemming from the historical division of the area that it marked, between the State of Milan, the Republic of Venice and the Grisons canton of Switzerland). I am bound to this mountain by epic, adventurous memories from my youth and this quantum tunnel beams both my eye and my mind from the lake directly to that proud peak (which is some 30 km away), as the enticing, sparkling reflections on the waters of the lake make my soul dance. I hope that the photo is good enough to stir emotions within your heart as well... Have a happy Sunday!
I have processed this picture by blending an exposure bracketing [-2.0/-1.0/0/+1.0/+2.0 EV] by luminosity masks with the Gimp (EXIF data, as usual, refer to the "normal" exposure shot).
Along the journey - post-processing always is a journey of discovery to me - I tried the inverted RGB blue channel technique described by Boris Hajdukovic to give a slight tonal boost to several parts of the scene. As usual, I gave the finishing touches with Nik Color Efex Pro 4.
Raw files processed with Darktable.
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A relatively recent discovery in the realm of physics, quantum entanglement is bizarre, eerie, mysterious, and seemingly magical. Albert Einstein shied away from the theory, calling it "spooky action at a distance." Since then, however, numerous experiments have confirmed this strange phenomenon. Basically, entangled particles can be separated from each other, over incredibly long distances--light years, in fact--and still mysteriously change when its partner is acted upon, almost as if there were an invisible umbilical cord connecting them. This seemingly conscious connection between entangled particles even occurs faster than the speed of light, a fact that made Einstein so leery about this possibility. The frontier of scientific discovery always has been a place of wonder, imagination, curiosity and delight, and never more so than in our time. This topic is very complex; this is only the most basic description of the phenomenon, and I am but an enthralled layman. That aside, it's incredibly fascinating--I suggest you take the time to learn a little about it! The ramifications of this discovery are very interesting--some even speculate that people can be entangled in a way, an incredibly fascinating ramification that only suggests something many of us believe anyway, though for different reasons.
Needless to say, the Universe is a big, strange and wonderful place.
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This work started off as a flower in my garden. It has proven to be a very versatile bloom, bless it's floral little heart:-)
Done in Mosaic Art Lab, Painnt and MirrorLabPro apps.
For:
NEW: Mixmaster Challenge #29 - Chef: bethrosengard
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CHEF BETH's theme is "Animal/Vegetable/Mineral/Abstract"! Here are the ingredients:
➤ Your image must be a pure, non-representational abstract.
➤ The source of your abstract must be a photo of a bird and/or a flower and/or a scissors (any one, two or all three).
➤ Your source photo(s) should not be recognizable (or only vaguely so) in the finished image.
➤ Be creative with your title which should convey the concept, composition and/or emotion of your abstract.
➤ You may use no other photos but the one, two or three noted above (though painting and other digital manipulation is fine).
For the Sliders Sunday group. Base image created using a Canon PowerShot camera and processed using Photoshop, Quad Pencil and Fractalius.
Happy Sliders Sunday!
The rest of the night passed quietly, and by morning the girls were back on the surface, continuing the cabin cleanup.
Kayla paused, head tilted. “Do you hear that?”
“Yeah. It’s coming this way,” Adrienne said.
An ATV rumbled down the dirt road and rolled to a stop in a cloud of dust. The driver waved before climbing off.
The girls waved back, exchanging a quick look. Adrienne muttered under her breath, “Now what…”
“Howdy, howdy ladies,” the man called as he waved again. “I’m Chad Vrooman. I heerd down to the tavern that we had new neighbors.” He was older, dressed in a T shirt and overalls, friendly in that rural, unhurried way.
“Hi, I’m Kayla, and this is Adrienne,” Kayla said. “Yes, we’ll be staying here for a while. It’s nice to meet a neighbor.”
“My place is just up the road a piece and round the curve,” Chad looked over at the cabin and said. “Ain’t been nobody stayin’ at the old Pettigrew place in some time. We seen some fancy white hair fellas lookin’ the place over and figured we’d be havin’ newcomers.”
He gave the girls a slow once over. “Are you’uns flatlanders?” Chad spat his chaw into the dust.
Kayla wrinkled her nose.
Adrienne answered, “Nooo. Just from downstate. We wanted to get away and see a few stars.” She swatted a mosquito on her cheek. “Fancy white hair fellows, you say? They probably decided this place needed more work than they wanted to do.”
“Well, good you'uns ain’t flatlanders. I like yas better already. I reckon ya kin see lots of stars, fur sure.”
Chad paused, squinting at Kayla like he was lining up a memory. “Say… ain’t you that girl I seen on the internet?”
Kayla shot back fast. “No! That must be someone else.”
Chad hitched his thumbs under his overall straps and went on, “You’uns need to hike down to the lake. They’s a tavern there. It ain’t far. Maggie’ll fix ya two up with real good food. Best Friday fish fry anywheres.”
“Not to sound crazy,” Kayla said, “but have you ever seen unusual lights in the sky?”
Chad shrugged. “Ya talkin’ ’bout them circle lights? Ya sure, I’ve seen ’em.”
“Yeah, those,” Kayla said. “We saw one last night and wondered what it was.”
“Odd things, but they ain’t never caused no trouble. I don’t pay ’em any mind,” Chad said.
He paused, studying them more closely. “This ain’t like downstate. I know you ladies wanna see stars, but round here folks stay inside after dark ’cause of the wildlife and stuff.”
Adrienne deadpanned, “Stuff? What kind of stuff, Chad.”
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You can view Quantum Fold series episodes in order from the beginning in the albums titled, "Quantum Fold I, II & III":
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You can view Quantum Fold II episodes in order from the beginning in the album titled, "Quantum Fold III":
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Quantum foam or spacetime foam is the fluctuation of spacetime on very small scales due to quantum mechanics. The idea was devised by John Wheeler in 1955. With an incomplete theory of quantum gravity, it is impossible to be certain what spacetime would look like at small scales. However, there is no reason that spacetime needs to be fundamentally smooth. It is possible that instead, in a quantum theory of gravity, spacetime would consist of many small, ever-changing regions in which space and time are not definite, but fluctuate in a foam-like manner.
Wheeler suggested that the Heisenberg uncertainty principle might imply that over sufficiently small distances and sufficiently brief intervals of time, the "very geometry of spacetime fluctuates". These fluctuations could be large enough to cause significant departures from the smooth spacetime seen at macroscopic scales, giving spacetime a "foamy" character.
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