making no more sense now than before
Ride Your Head Like a Bus / Sometimes feels like somebody else driving and not my job, relax and take some pictures, that’s the way to go now | Lomo LC-A+ | Lomo SunsetStrip 100 (Xpro) | LomoLab (New York City)
Triangle World | Mamiya/Sekor 1000TL w/ M/S 135mm f2.8 lens | Kodak Ektar 100 | Lab: Walgreens
The 25 Coolest Catch Phrases for Scientific ConceptsOne of the best parts about science is that it contains no shortage of awesome-sounding terms to describe complicated ideas. Here are 25 of them.
1. Absolute Zero: the coldest possible temperature.
2. Action At A Distance: a term used in quantum mechanics to describe the eerie effect when objects separated in space still interact with each other (non-local interaction).
3. Big Bang: a theory on the origin of the Universe that’s pretty self explanatory.
4. Big Crunch: a theory on the ultimate demise of the Universe in which the cosmos closes back in on itself.
5. Big Rip: another theory on the ultimate demise of the Universe in which the cosmos continues to expand at a rapid rate, destroying everything in the process, including matter at the atomic scale.
6. Biotic Factor: a living part of an ecosystem.
7. Blue Shift: another word for the Doppler Effect, it describes any decrease in the wavelength of light (Red Shift works just as well).
8. Cold Fusion: a hypothetical type of nuclear reaction that could occur at room temperature.
9. Cosmological Singularity: the location near a black hole where the quantities that are used to measure the gravitational field become infinite.
10. Dark Energy: a hypothetical form of energy that permeates all of space and contributes to the acceleration and expansion of the Universe.
11. Dark Matter: a hypothetical form of matter that accounts for a large part of the total mass in the Universe.
12. Escape Velocity: the speed required to break free from the gravitational forces of a large celestial object (like the planet Earth).
13. Event Horizon: the point of no return near a black hole where events cannot affect an outside observer (i.e. the point at which the gravitational pull is so great that escape becomes impossible).
14. Heat Death of the Universe: yet another theory on the ultimate demise of the Universe in which the cosmos has been exhausted of all its energy (why do all the cosmological doomsday terms sound so cool?).
15. Limiting Factor: anything that controls the growth or survival of a population.
16. No Action Without An Equal And Opposite Reaction: this is essentially Newton’s First Law of Motion.
17. Null Hypothesis: a term coined by Ronald Fisher to describe a type of hypothesis which proposes that no statistical significance exists in a set of given observations (an attempt to show that no variation exists between variables).
18. Quantum Entanglement: a term that describes what happens in “action at a distance” when microscopic particles interact physically and then become separated; it describes the special connection between pairs or groups of quantum particles (actually, anything with the word ‘quantum’ in front of it belongs on this list, like quantum superposition, or quantum locking).
19. Red Dwarf: a small and relatively cool star.
20. String Theory: a branch of physics that attempts to reconcile quantum mechanics and general relativity; it proposes that elementary particles within an atom are 1-dimensional oscillating “strings”.
21. Super Collider: another term for a particle accelerator.
22. Survival Of The Fittest: a wickedly concise description of Darwinian natural selection.
23. Terminal Velocity: the point at which a falling object has zero acceleration on account of the drag force equaling the downward force of gravity (for humans this is 210 km/h (130 mph) and for cats it’s 100 km/h (60 mph)).
24. Test Tube Babies: an outdated term for in vitro fertilization.
25. The Central Dogma: a term coined by Francis Crick and used in molecular biology to describe the flow of genetic information within a biological system.
This is the kind of stuff that Neil deGrasse Tyson likes to talk about, and I love it.—wakartist
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6 of one, 1/2 dozen of the other | mamiya/sekor 1000TL w/ 55mm f1.8 | revolog texture | wakartist | lab: walgreens (ann arbor mi)
This is the cover to a heater that was never installed. Now leads to an alternate dimension of shadowland.
Below the Surface | Mamiya/Sekor 1000TL, Mamiya/Sekor lens 55mm F1.8 | Revolog Texture | Lab: Walgreens
Winter Room | Pentax Spotmatic F | SMC Takumar 55mm F1.8 | Tri-X 400 | me (William A Kincaid) | Focus Photo (Ann Arbor MI) | c) wakartist 2013 etc
Alien Reception Room (They Came from Above the Sky)
Pentax Spotmatic SP, Super Takumar 50mm F1.4, Revolog 460nm,
Walgreens (Ann Arbor MI)
c) wakartist 2013
Set the controls for the heart of the sun ( cuz I’m burning up)
Pentax ES, Agfa CTPrecisa100, X-Processed and Scanned by Holland Photo, Austin TX
copyright 2012 wakartist etc
Pharmacy Astronomy (I see everything this way now)
LC-A+, Kodak EliteChrome 200 expired, xprocessed and scanned by Holland Photo
copyright 2012 wakartist etc
survived my operation so far, but now have an infection, feels like looking out my belly button window is looking so far up into the sky dome that I might not be on any planet anymore
San Francisco Public Library, 2009
Canon EOS 40D, RAW to JPEG, no post-processing
c) wakartist 2009, 2012 etc
Window
this the last live blog before surgery because no more time, everything is now queued.
canon elan7, fuji consumer film, foto one
c 2012 wakartist
Waiting for Space and Time to stop distorting the chemistry
Snap Fun camera, Unknown film, Walgreen lab
c) wakartist 2012 etc
Door of of other light, un unearthly light, light of other suns, how long has gone been long gone and other stories told around the cave camp fire
Canon SD3500 IS
no post processing
c) wakartist 2012 etc
It’s been 43 years since the first humans, Americans Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, walked on the surface of the moon.
Pictured: The Moon: Considered as a Planet, a World, and a Satellite (1874) by James Nasmyth and James Carpenter
Can you even begin to imagine the feeling of being up there, so far away from everyone and everything?