December 2011
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“Math is the gateway to reality.”
– Brian Greene (via oddnumbered)
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Hey babe, what's your sine?
It has got to be pi/2, because you are the 1!!!
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“As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as...”
– Albert Einstein (via priscilladreamstheanswer)
August 2011
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Christine the Astrophysicist: Evolution of my Fall... →
christinetheastrophysicist:
Sometime back in May:
Quantum Physics II
Stellar Astrophysics
Visual Art I
Sometime in the middle of June:
Quantum Physics II
Stellar Astrophysics
Electronics II + Lab
Visual Art I
Sometime in the beginning of July:
Quantum Physics II
Stellar Astrophysics
Electronics II + Lab
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I would kill for this schedule! Except I wouldn’t have Visual...
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Say It With Science: Vedic Multiplication →
sayitwithscience:
(Technically called Nikhilam Navatashcaramam Dashatah) This is a quick and simple way to multiply any two numbers. It’s easiest when the numbers are both close to a power of ten, but it will always work.
The first step is to chose a power of ten that the numbers are closest to. In my example I…
I love learning new math tricks! Thanks for this!!
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You Know You're a Math Nerd When Part 2
chictogeek:
You carry around a mechanical pencil and an eraser with you just in case you need to do math suddenly.
You get really excited learning new ways to do long division or any other type of math trick.
You get into debates about which way is better to learn/teach math.
You laugh at math jokes REALLY heartily.
(All things that happened to me today.)
All very very true. I know. I...
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Black Diamonds May Improve Quantum Computer... →
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hadron94: Jobs in Physics & PhD Positions! :) →
hadron94:
Mechanical Engineer (Staff Engineer / Project Engineer II) http://cerncourier.com/cws/m/2125/278910/job/J000006435 Beamline Mechanical Engineer (Multiple Openings) http://cerncourier.com/cws/m/2125/278910/job/J000006433 Coordinator for a joint PhD Program …
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Needless LSD →
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This Will Blow Your Mind: The Known Universe →
If you have six minutes, you should definitely watch this video…
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Scientists Create World's First Practical... →
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Columbia Engineers Prove Graphene is the Strongest... →
Research scientists at Columbia University’s Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science have achieved a breakthrough by proving that the carbon material graphene is the strongest material ever measured.
Graphene holds great promise for the development of nano-scale devices and equipment. It consists of a single layer of graphite atoms arranged in a hexagonal lattice, similar to a...
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ScienceWorld by Wolfram Research: An amazing... →
This is an awesome site to help everyone out there like me. Whether you like to just randomly learn more and more about mathematics, like me, or need to struggle through high school geometry, this site helps!
It has an easy-to-navigate interface that will let you quickly find the topic or theory you need and research it more in depth.
Hope it helps!!!
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presidentofvenezuela asked: $30 Riddle--
The $2 should be subtracted from the $27 (not added) to total the $25 bill. Trick question! And no, you aren't the only one that does math for fun! :)
The $2 should be subtracted from the $27 (not added) to total the $25 bill. Trick question! And no, you aren't the only one that does math for fun! :)
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Virtual atom smasher in LHC@Home 2.0 →
darkuncle:
remember folding@home? SETI@home? distributed.net? (I had a few dozen machines working on a 3des contest there at one point long ago.) If you liked that stuff, chances are you’d also like having your computers’ idle cycles put to work searching through LHC data to support physics experiments like the CMS and ATLAS, and maybe even contributing to the search for the Higgs Boson.
Just...
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Letters to Crushes: Electron Romance →
ibelphegor:
Physics is romantic. <3
“We have so much in common, we’re like electrons with identical quantum numbers.”
Pili… :O
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javaman1492:
Kaprekar’s Constant
1. Take any 4 digit number, except, 1111, 2222, …, 9999. Leading zeros are allowed.
2. Arrange the digits in increasing, and then in decreasing order to get 2 four-digit numbers, adding leading zeros if necessary.
3. Subtract the smaller number from the bigger number.
4. Repeat steps 2 and 3
IN AT MOST 7 ITERATIONS, THE ABOVE PROCESS WILL ALWAYS PRODUCE...
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June 2011
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May 2011
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MIT OpenCourseware
I think this is a great thing for people like me (God, I hope there are more like me out there…)
I am going to a college that blows. The highest math class they have is Calc I, which I took as a sophomore in highschool. I did happen upon this site though, allowing you to go through all of MIT’s professors’ class notes! I about crapped!
Check it out!!
Let me know what you...
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“There was a young fellow of Trinity
Who found the square root of infinity.
The...”
– (via firewineandvictory)
“Physics is like sex. Sure, it may give us some practical results but that’s not...”
– Richard Feynman (via tziganeheart)
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College physics demonstrations →
Easy to understand physics demonstrations for the college student…
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“I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can...”
– Stephen Hawking (via epicwalls)
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April 2011
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Anthropic principle →
mathsandphysics:
I love finding out there’s a theory for thoughts I’ve been trying to articulate.
“In physics and cosmology, the anthropic principle is the philosophical argument that observations of the physical Universe must be compatible with the conscious life that observes it. Some proponents of the argument reason that it explains why the Universe has the age and the fundamental physical...
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New Particle, If Proved, Could Be A 'Huge... →
lookhigh:
Scientists at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Illinois said this week a “bump” in their data may be evidence of a new subatomic particle — one that could change our understanding of modern physics…. [The] particle may be evidence of a new force of nature, one that operates in only the shortest of distances between subatomic particles in individual atoms. For...
March 2011
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We Showed 'Troll Physics' Comics to a Physics... →
wrexxx:
This is great.
DM: If all the plants on the planet can’t currently absorb the human-generated CO2 where they are, moving some of them closer to the cars certainly isn’t going to help. Stupid.
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Sometimes, it's better to think outside the box... →
When great minds are pitted against their mentors, they often come out as the (probably oppressed) victors.
“Great minds are often met with violent opposition by mediocrities.” —Albert Einstein
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