david webster

ugly-diamonds: ☹sassy blog ☹

Thu, 23 May 2013 01:32:18 -0400

☹sassy blog ☹

Christopher Nolan on the ending of Inception: “The important...

Thu, 23 May 2013 01:31:57 -0400

Christopher Nolan on the ending of Inception: “The important thing is that Cobb’s not looking at the top. He doesn’t care.”

Photo

Thu, 23 May 2013 01:30:23 -0400

just wanna remind everyone that astrology is pseudo-science

Thu, 23 May 2013 00:21:02 -0400

just wanna remind everyone that astrology is pseudo-science

Photo

Thu, 23 May 2013 00:20:29 -0400

Photo

Thu, 23 May 2013 00:20:23 -0400

elkane: Jack Dawson… Penniless artist who wins a ticket onto...

Thu, 23 May 2013 00:19:53 -0400

elkane:

Jack Dawson… Penniless artist who wins a ticket onto Titanic in 1912, attends a first class dinner, develops a taste for the finer things in life, pockets the Heart of the Ocean, survives the sinking, pawns the diamond, spends the following ten years building his wealth and in 1922 moves to West Egg as Jay Gatsby… Millionaire with a shady past and fear of swimming pools.

astrodidact: Planck Time What is the smallest unit of time you...

Thu, 23 May 2013 00:15:32 -0400

astrodidact:

Planck Time

What is the smallest unit of time you can conceive? A second? A millisecond? Hard to say seeing as how time is relative. Under the right circumstances, hours can fly by and seconds can feel like a lifetime. But unfortunately for physicists, time is not something that can be delt with so philosophically. And since they deal with cosmological forces both infinitesimally large and small, they need units that can objectively measure them. When it comes to dealing with the small, Planck Time is the measurement of choice. Named after German physicist Max Planck, the founder of quantum theory, a unit of Planck time is the time it takes for light to travel, in a vacuum, a single unit of Planck length. Taken together, they part of the larger system of natural units known as Planck units.

Originally proposed in 1899 by German physicist Max Planck, Planck units are physical units of measurement defined exclusively in terms of five universal physical constants. These are the Gravitational constant (G), the Reduced Planck constant (h), the speed of light in a vacuum (c), the Coulomb constant(ke or k), and Boltzmann’s constant (kB, sometimes k). Each of these constants can be associated with at least one fundamental physical theory: c with special relativity, G with general relativity and Newtonian gravity, with quantum mechanics, with electrostatics, and kB with statistical mechanics and thermodynamics. They were invented as a means of simplifying the particular algebraic expressions appearing in theoretical physics, especially in quantum mechanics.

Ultimately, Planck time is derived from the field of mathematical physics known as dimensional analysis, which studies units of measurement and physical constants. The Planck time is the unique combination of the gravitational constant G, the relativity constant c, and the quantum constant h, to produce a constant with units of time. They are often semi-humorously referred to by physicists as “God’s units” because eliminate anthropocentric arbitrariness from the system of units, unlike the meter and second, which exist for purely historical reasons and are not derived from nature. Some challenges to Planck’s Time have been mounted. For example, in 2003 during the analysis of the Hubble Space Telescope Deep Field images, some scientists speculated that where there are space-time fluctuations on the Planck scale, images of extremely distant objects should be blurry. The Hubble images, they claimed, were too sharp for this to be the case. Other scientists disagreed with this assumption however, with some saying the fluctuations would be too small to be observable, others saying that the speculated blurring effect that was expected was off by a very large magnitude. A unit of Planck Time can be expressed (in the third picture).

Read more

the-science-llama: Super Moon— June 23, 2013Be sure to look out...

Wed, 22 May 2013 20:56:53 -0400

the-science-llama:

Super Moon
— June 23, 2013

Be sure to look out for the Moon these next few months as it approaches Perigee, because the full moons during these times will appear exceptionally large. The Moon will be at its Perigee, or closest approach, in July 23 and it will reach full moon only a few minutes after it passes this point in its orbit.

These ‘super moons’ not only appear larger because they are physically closer but, combined with a full moon, the mind can play tricks on you to think they are much larger. This phenomena is called the Moon Illusion. Try to catch these full moons as they rise/set because the illusion works when there is an object in the foreground, like a tree, building or mountains.

Stargazing Events for 2013

"You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were five minutes ago."

Wed, 22 May 2013 20:55:37 -0400

“You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were five minutes ago.”

- (via rainydaysandblankets)

Photo

Wed, 22 May 2013 20:55:29 -0400

cheyloaf: Under the Avalon Fishing Pier by cheyloaf

Wed, 22 May 2013 16:16:29 -0400

cheyloaf:

Under the Avalon Fishing Pier by cheyloaf

ny-insomniac: Walking along the beach at sunset - Outer Banks,...

Wed, 22 May 2013 16:04:54 -0400

ny-insomniac:

Walking along the beach at sunset - Outer Banks, NC (2011)

sometimesbrilliant: #except for you #since you murdered most of...

Wed, 22 May 2013 15:58:09 -0400

sometimesbrilliant:

#except for you #since you murdered most of them

black-nata: vaguemartin: Superhero’s salaries. “Infinity”

Wed, 22 May 2013 15:57:33 -0400

black-nata:

vaguemartin:

Superhero’s salaries.

“Infinity”

"(World War I) was the most colossal, murderous, mismanaged butchery that has ever taken place on..."

Wed, 22 May 2013 02:39:06 -0400

“(World War I) was the most colossal, murderous, mismanaged butchery that has ever taken place on Earth. Any writer who said otherwise lied, so writers either wrote propaganda, shut up, or fought”

- Ernest Hemgway (via pullingahemingway)

Photo

Wed, 22 May 2013 02:38:33 -0400

I didn’t know that anyone but myself has ever heard of...

Wed, 22 May 2013 02:18:15 -0400

I didn’t know that anyone but myself has ever heard of this band

tomdelongestwenisever: Ultimately, these are my friends. It’s...

Wed, 22 May 2013 00:17:17 -0400

tomdelongestwenisever:

Ultimately, these are my friends. It’s why I point a camera. I want them vulnerable, fragile and sneezing. They are heros to me.   It’s my life and I only get one go round.

But they are also, just heros.   The shit I love about them resonates, both in inspiration and in you becoming.   I like freezing a moment.   I like witnessing. I create, but I’m a fan of this crazy life.

I’m proud of catching Atom dripping sweat in a rare mowhawk moment. I like that I caught Tom contemplative – and trust me, the man sells himself with his own enthusiasm.   David is frozen in a strutting moment before a crowd.   And this, the shy boy, jumping walls and exploding in a motorcycle dash.   Matt is both crazy and laser like sane.

These are photos. Glimpses, if you will.   Snapshots of my heros. Frail and kicking your ass.

Like life, it’s tentative, fragile, and halting. And these are the memories gorgeous. The impulse of a finger loving the moment when friends become. - Jeff “Critter” Newell - The fifth member of Angels and Airwaves

What a beautiful, beautiful piece of writing… Rest in peace Critter…

southofthecity: Italian Marble Statues

Wed, 22 May 2013 00:01:49 -0400

southofthecity:

Italian Marble Statues