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Heisenberg Principle : Tuesday Tattoo
Randy L’s Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle Tattoo.
Tattoo inker Gianna, Powerhouse Tattoos, Montclair, NJ Talk Like a Physicist
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Math Tattoo: 6×9=42 – I am sure there is a deep meaning to this
Is it because answer to every question is 42?
The number 42 is the answer to life, the universe and everything from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
May be stylized 6 and 9 are not numbers at all but represent something else. 6×9 =42 in some different base numbers.
OK, I got it; from the Restaurant at the End of the Universe book:
Arthur pulls random letters from a bag, but only gets the sentence “WHAT DO YOU GET IF YOU MULTIPLY SIX BY NINE?”
“ “Six by nine. Forty two.”
“That’s it. That’s all there is.”
“I always thought something was fundamentally wrong with the universe
Sometimes I do think that there is something fundamentally wrong with the Universe. Talk Like a Physicist
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Science books fetch astronomical prices: Copernicus book $2.2M
I wrote about the Science book auction a few days ago.
Here is how much was realized for some of the notable books.
GALILEI, Galileo (1564-1642). Le operazioni del compasso geometrico, et militare. Padova: in the house of the author by Pietro Marinelli, 1606.
Price realized : $506,500
KEPLER, Johannes. Harmonices mundi libri V. Linz: Johann Planck for Gottfried Tampach, 1619.
Price realized : $306,000
COPERNICUS, Nicolaus (1473-1543). De revolutionibus orbium coelestium, libri V. Nuremberg: Johann Petreius, 1543.
Price realized : $2,210,500
In all, the total take from Tuesday’s auction at Christie’s New York came to more than $11 million — compared with a pre-sale estimate of $6 million.
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Amazing closeup pictures of bubbles – like you have never seen before
Creative Review commissioned photographer Jason Tozer to shoot these pictures on behalf of Sony using its new Alpha digital camera. All common-or-garden soap bubbles, shot in-camera!
And my favorite:
Click for a better view.
To learn how the pictures were taken, please visit here ; but essentially they blew up soap bubbles and took pictures with Sony’s new alpha Series SLR camera.
The iridescent colors of soap bubbles are caused by interfering light waves and are determined by the thickness of the film. They are not the same as rainbow colors but are the same as the colors in an oil slick on a wet road.
As light impinges on the film, some of it is reflected off the outer surface while some of it enters the film and reemerges after being reflected back and forth between the two surfaces. The total reflection observed is determined by the interference of all these reflections. Since each traversal of the film incurs a phase shift proportional to the thickness of the film and inversely proportional to the wavelength, the result of the interference depends on these two quantities.
Thus, at a given thickness, interference is constructive for some wavelengths and destructive for others, so that white light impinging on the film is reflected with a hue that changes with thickness.
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