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The Scale of Things

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Created by evlPanda > 9 months ago, 15 May 2012
evlPanda
NSW, 9207 posts
15 May 2012 1:11PM
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htwins.net/scale2/

log man
VIC, 8289 posts
15 May 2012 1:34PM
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evlPanda said...

htwins.net/scale2/


That's awesome!

da vecta
QLD, 2515 posts
15 May 2012 3:17PM
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That's most excellent. Vega was tripping me out!

tmurray
WA, 485 posts
15 May 2012 2:26PM
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Very cool

Macroscien
QLD, 6809 posts
8 Jul 2012 11:10AM
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nice

Mark _australia
WA, 23711 posts
8 Jul 2012 10:06AM
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bugger...... thought "htwins" was going to be something else

but that is mega cool

paddymac
WA, 943 posts
8 Jul 2012 10:48AM
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Yeah, very cool.

I once saw a short physics video that zoomed at from the very small to the very large, from the perspective of an atom on earth as the starting point. It showed amazing repetition of lots of nothing, then briefly some stuff, then lots of nothing... over and over.

edit: this looks like the one

DunkO
NSW, 1150 posts
8 Jul 2012 5:35PM
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rather cool, raised more questions than it answered

dorothyinste
QLD, 481 posts
9 Jul 2012 10:32AM
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At both extremes, for me, this is a complete mind@#$%.
My simple understanding cannot come to terms with the magnitude.

sausage
QLD, 4874 posts
9 Jul 2012 1:16PM
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What...no Higgs Boson pffft

evlPanda
NSW, 9207 posts
9 Jul 2012 2:55PM
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dorothyinste said...

At both extremes, for me, this is a complete mind@#$%.
My simple understanding cannot come to terms with the magnitude.


I also do not understand anything, but I respect that some people do.

www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/07/still-confused-about-the-higgs-boson-read-this/259472/

...sometimes it feels like I do understand, even reading Hawkins, little flashes of understanding, but there's no way I could re-explain it to somebody else, so I'm sure I'm probably just tripping.

paddymac
WA, 943 posts
9 Jul 2012 8:20PM
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evlPanda said...

dorothyinste said...

At both extremes, for me, this is a complete mind@#$%.
My simple understanding cannot come to terms with the magnitude.


I also do not understand anything, but I respect that some people do.

www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/07/still-confused-about-the-higgs-boson-read-this/259472/

...sometimes it feels like I do understand, even reading Hawkins, little flashes of understanding, but there's no way I could re-explain it to somebody else, so I'm sure I'm probably just tripping.


Makes me think of what Richard Feynman said "If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don't understand quantum mechanics."

AUS02
TAS, 2042 posts
10 Jul 2012 7:51AM
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That was fantastic. Puts things in perspective - literally.

pweedas
WA, 4642 posts
10 Jul 2012 3:59PM
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I didn't see fish in there and they have lots of scales.



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