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> 10 years ago

Shooting the breeze.

evlPanda

NSW

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evlPanda

NSW, 9207 posts

15 May 2012 1:11pm

htwins.net/scale2/

log man

VIC

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log man

VIC, 8289 posts

15 May 2012 1:34pm

evlPanda said...

htwins.net/scale2/

That's awesome!

da vecta

QLD

2515 posts

da vecta

QLD, 2515 posts

15 May 2012 3:17pm

That's most excellent. Vega was tripping me out!

tmurray

485 posts

tmurray

WA, 485 posts

15 May 2012 2:26pm

Very cool

Macroscien

QLD

6809 posts

Macroscien

QLD, 6809 posts

8 Jul 2012 11:10am

nice

Mark _australia

23688 posts

Mark _australia

WA, 23688 posts

8 Jul 2012 10:06am

bugger...... thought "htwins" was going to be something else

but that is mega cool

paddymac

943 posts

paddymac

WA, 943 posts

8 Jul 2012 10:48am

Yeah, very cool.

I once saw a short physics video that zoomed at from the very small to the very large, from the perspective of an atom on earth as the starting point. It showed amazing repetition of lots of nothing, then briefly some stuff, then lots of nothing... over and over.

edit: this looks like the one

DunkO

NSW

1150 posts

DunkO

NSW, 1150 posts

8 Jul 2012 5:35pm

rather cool, raised more questions than it answered

dorothyinste

QLD

481 posts

dorothyinste

QLD, 481 posts

9 Jul 2012 10:32am

At both extremes, for me, this is a complete mind@#$%.
My simple understanding cannot come to terms with the magnitude.

sausage

QLD

4874 posts

sausage

QLD, 4874 posts

9 Jul 2012 1:16pm

What...no Higgs Boson pffft

evlPanda

NSW

9207 posts

evlPanda

NSW, 9207 posts

9 Jul 2012 2:55pm

dorothyinste said...

At both extremes, for me, this is a complete mind@#$%.
My simple understanding cannot come to terms with the magnitude.

I also do not understand anything, but I respect that some people do.

www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/07/still-confused-about-the-higgs-boson-read-this/259472/

...sometimes it feels like I do understand, even reading Hawkins, little flashes of understanding, but there's no way I could re-explain it to somebody else, so I'm sure I'm probably just tripping.

paddymac

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paddymac

WA, 943 posts

9 Jul 2012 8:20pm

evlPanda said...

dorothyinste said...

At both extremes, for me, this is a complete mind@#$%.
My simple understanding cannot come to terms with the magnitude.

Makes me think of what Richard Feynman said "If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don't understand quantum mechanics."

AUS02

TAS

2042 posts

AUS02

TAS, 2042 posts

10 Jul 2012 7:51am

That was fantastic. Puts things in perspective - literally.

pweedas

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pweedas

WA, 4642 posts

10 Jul 2012 3:59pm

I didn't see fish in there and they have lots of scales.

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