"...we try to make predictions about Nature, to anticipate what we’ll see in places we have not yet looked. If additional observations corroborate our expectations, then we’re on the right track. Several skill sets are involved: one must know how to idealize the world, and then how to work with that idealization.
Also see larger version of many of these images in the Volume Renderings gallery.
Central slice. Note the needle and lead dsDNA detail (near center), and more than four concentric shells through the horizontal plane at center of capsid.
Stereo pairs (cross-view):
"For a physicist, it is indeed a great joy to learn how we can use beautiful mathematics to understand the real world." In Stephen Weinberg's "Without God" (9/25/08, The New York Review of Books)
TED Video which speculates on the next 5000 days of the web. Infers connections between web and brain strucutre interconnectivity.
Also a nice fluid dynamics video of experiments being done on the interntational space station in micro gravity.
I've been reading a lot of material developed by Alan Kay (e.g. his writings), and others who have been influenced by Kay's vision of what operating systems and software should look like to create a revolution in the way people, in particular children, learn.
Still fun to see an new image show up in the side bar. Pa caught my attention Mark its a good one. Seems to depict, for me, looking at the sun from underwater, while a bit drunk. Would make a good logo maybe for orange juice I particularly like the swastika origin an ancient archetypal symbol with records going to Egypt and sun god idolatry before that guy usurped it.
A couple people have asked to use an image of mine, 16 Rotation Ambiguous Cubes, that I am fond of. Kristel Braunius, a Graphic Designer in Holland, asked to use it in "a little book about 'clean language / communication' for the university of Wageningen in Holland." She sent the page proof (below), which is a nice juxtaposition of the image with a diagram of the human visual system.
Science 18 April 2008 Vol 320, Issue 5874 has a wonderful article about the geometry of music, how "many musical terms can be understood as expressing symmetries of n-dimensional space, where each dimension represents a voice in the score. Identifying—gluing together—points related by these symmetries produces exotic mathematical spaces (orbifolds) that subsume a large number of geometric models previously proposed."
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