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A Brief History of Black Holes

Wonders of Physics Menu Pages Home Bhautiki Shop More Subscribe A Brief History of Black Holes Understanding black hole from Albert Einstein to Katie Bouman. Share Tweet Pinterest Email Wonders of Physics Apr 10, 2019 In 1915, more than one hundred years ago, Albert Einstein published a theory of space and time or "spacetime" to be exact. One of the crucial predictions of this theory was the bending of light as it approach...

The Incredible Journey of Hydrogen Atoms

Wonders of PhysicsMenuPagesHomeBhautikiShopMoreSubscribeThe Incredible Journey of Hydrogen Atomsa most profound story about the universeShareTweetPinterestEmailWonders of PhysicsFeb 24, 2020As I sat, fixed in some corner of the room, attending a not-so-important lecture, my eyes couldn't help but notice a little drop of water lying carefree on the desk. The size of the thing was so small that one possibly could not see it directly. So I got closer to it, the minute sphere, which lay surp...

Notes on Hats

On hats and their symbolism: From Dictionary of Symbols: Hat According to Jung, the hat, since it covers the head, generally takes on the significance of what goes on inside it: thought. He recalls the German saying ‘to put all ideas under one hat’, and mentions that in Meyrink’s novel The Golem, the protagonist thinks the thoughts and undergoes the experiences of another man whose hat he has put on by mistake (32). Jung also points out that, since the hat is the ‘crown’ and summit of an...

How Does a Caterpillar Turn into a Butterfly? - Scientific American

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Underwater Balloon Gardens

Underwater Balloon GardensSourceURL: http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=4565           Underwater Balloon Gardens Not really a prediction, but I can't resist this story about growing strawberries in a really hostile environment. (Underwater Balloon Gardens) This is a snapshot of life at one of the world's strangest farms. In the e...

Inventions and Ideas from Science Fiction Books and Movies at Technovelgy

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Poetry as history

by guest contributor Dr. Will Pooley This post is the first installment of a forum on the genres in which we write history. A series of scholars will discuss the choices they make in communicating their research and reflect upon the suitability of various media. When academics discuss alternative genres for presenting histories, we tend to concentrate on the usual suspects: historical fiction, biography, documentaries, and film.[1] These genres all share significant commonalities w...

The Architecture of Molecules | PaulingBlog

Menu Skip to primary content HomeAbout Us Creating The Pauling Catalogue Search The Architecture of Molecules [Part 2 of 2] By the end of the 1950s, Roger Hayward had retired from his professional work as an architect at the same time that his career as an illustrator was reaching its peak. And with this came a new mea...

Synthetic Philosophy and Synthetic Surrealism

Synthetic SurrealismSourceURL: https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/features/synthetic-surrealism-leonora-carrington-1234588925/ In 1949, seven years after fleeing a warring Europe for Mexico City, the artist and writer Leonora Carrington (1917–2011) read a very curious book. Robert Graves’s White Goddess: A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth, published a year earlier, was a mythographic account of the ways in which paganism underlies Christian belief. It posited the existence of a moo...