There’s a striking link between quantum and astronomic scales. What could it mean?
While working late one night in 2017, Konstantin Batygin, a professor of planetary sciences at the California Institute of Technology, made a mathematical connection that he imagined someone else had surely found before, likely centuries ago. He had realised that the peculiar ‘washed-out wave’ behaviour of matter on the quantum scale – which disappears on the macroscopic scale (the one we can observe with our naked eye) – reemerges at the astronomical scale. As this short from Thought Café reveals, this finding turned out to have been a novel one in the history of science. Featuring some nifty animated visuals, the video has Batygin discussing the practical applications of his ‘quantum sandwich’ discovery, as well as its potentially mind-boggling implications.
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https://aeon.co/videos/a-dazzling-slice-by-slice-exploration-of-wood-exposes-hidden-patterns-and-hues
That's cool, especially seeing the birdseye grain.
https://psyche.co/films/enter-the-sensory-world-of-an-overstimulated-autistic-mind
Unbelievable
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2021/06/simone-biles-slow-motion/
Incredible!
Looked perfect to me.
Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.
Heck, I did that off of my motorcycle a few years ago. Minus sticking the landing, it wasn't difficult.
Time lapse
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2021/06/lior-patel-sheep-herding/
Looks a bit like maggots.
reminded me of a time laps of cultured bacteria
The kid's facial expressions are perfect...
https://youtu.be/NsaSG-0U4mU
There’s a striking link between quantum and astronomic scales. What could it mean?
While working late one night in 2017, Konstantin Batygin, a professor of planetary sciences at the California Institute of Technology, made a mathematical connection that he imagined someone else had surely found before, likely centuries ago. He had realised that the peculiar ‘washed-out wave’ behaviour of matter on the quantum scale – which disappears on the macroscopic scale (the one we can observe with our naked eye) – reemerges at the astronomical scale. As this short from Thought Café reveals, this finding turned out to have been a novel one in the history of science. Featuring some nifty animated visuals, the video has Batygin discussing the practical applications of his ‘quantum sandwich’ discovery, as well as its potentially mind-boggling implications.
https://aeon.co/videos/theres-a-striking-link-between-quantum-and-astronomic-scales-what-could-it-mean
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2023/07/process-x/
^^^ very satisfying to watch. @IndustMech
Is this @cigarexplorer 's outfit? Doesn't look like he's been on the forum in a while.
Parachuting beavers created a fire-resistant wetland
Edit... And more beaver news:
https://www.sanluisobispo.com/news/local/environment/article277937518.html
You can't beat a good beaver.
Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.
June Cleaver disagrees.