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I look up — many people feel small because they’re small and the Universe is big — but I feel big, because my atoms came from those stars. There’s a level of connectivity.
That’s really what you want in life, you want to feel connected, you want to feel relevant, you want to feel like a participant in the goings on of activities and events around you.
That’s precisely what we are, just by being alive…
- Dr. Neil DeGrasse Tyson
(Source: quantumeagle, via sincerelyscience)
Cern closes in on antigravity answer
Researchers at Cern in Switzerland have tested a novel way to find out if antimatter is the source of a force termed “antigravity”. Antimatter particles are the “mirror image” of normal matter, but with opposite electric charge. How antimatter responds to gravity remains a mystery, however; it may “fall up” rather than down…
The World’s Smallest Movie - “A Boy and his Atom”
This is really, really sick. A movie with atoms as ‘actors’ has been named by the Guinness World Records organization, as the “world’s smallest movie.” Called “A Boy and his Atom”, the stop-action film was produced by IBM to introduce students to the world of mathematics and science, while highlighting IBM’s own history of research.
(Source: false-shepherd-misguided-lamb)
"If I were to go back in time and kill my grandfather, that would be stupid."
Lucas Illing, on the grandfather paradox (via erwinbrodinger)
Remnants of supernova explosion found in ancient magnetotactic bacteria
by John Hewitt
Back in 2004, German scientists discovered traces of supernova ejecta that had been deposited in the deep-sea ferromanganese crust of the pacific ocean. They dated the supernova event to 2.8 million years ago (Mya), using estimates from the decay of iron-60 radioisotope. They were also able to estimate the distance of the supernova event to 10 parsecs (pc) from our sun, based on the amount of iron-60 deposited.
At the April 14th meeting of the American Physical Society, a Canadian scientist, Shawn Bishop, reported finding traces of iron-60 of supernova origin in the fossilized remains of a common bacteria. By accurately dating the sediment cores in which the samples were found, Bishop appears to have discovered the first biological signature of an ancient supernova event, and may even be able to link it to a specific exploding star…
(read more: PhysOrg)
(image: NASA/ESA/JHU/R.Sankrit & W.Blair)
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled."
Richard Feynman
Upon identifying the reason for the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger and his demonstration using immersion in iced water to show that O-rings grow brittle when cold.
http://todayinsci.com/F/Feynman_Richard/FeynmanRichard-Quotations.htm
(via insidewarp)
