The life of a not so average physics nerd...

Life's got its own challenges, I like to use my interests and passions to help me feel a little less alone, and laugh a lot more.

[rightsidebrains]

Gold

[justonemoremonster]

So Purgatory is a forest.

What if purgatory used to be Eden? It’s been warped since Adam and Eve ate the apple, but instead of being banished out of Eden, like, Eve was trapped there. and she became the Mother of monsters, and that’s where they live now.

A monstrous, darkened version of Eden. 

[livebloggingmydescentintomadness]

[symbioticantithesis]

So what happened to Adam??

[littlenaivecastiel-blog]

[abaddonsbabe]

so we forget every adam

the curse of the adam

[islandofskye-blog]

[sizvideos]

[shutupblanka]

every woman on tumblr should have this on their dash

[multi-coloredmountains]

And every man

[setbabiesonfire]

Look how nobody’s yelling or arguing or making things into a competition. Look how this is to straight up educate people through a different perspective. Look how effective that makes the message.

[b-ak3d]

The last one really hit me. I never really thought about something like that could actually impact a woman’s life. Damn…

[neuropath-ic]

Harry Potter + Funny Tumblr Text Posts

[awesome-picz]

Awkward Everyday Lives Of Animals By Simpsons Illustrator Liz Climo

[witchoncampus]

HOW TO VOTE 2016

SO INSTEAD OF TELLING YOU WHO TO VOTE FOR, I’M GOING TO TELL YOU HOW TO VOTE BECAUSE NOBODY EVER SEEMS TO DO THAT.

Remember that the 2016 presidential election does not just take place in 2016. The primaries are just as important because they decide who gets to run for president in the national election in November. 

Tentative primary & caucuses dates

2016 candidates I

2016 candidates II

How to register to vote

How to file for an absentee ballot

How to file for early voting

PLEASE VOTE. IT IS YOUR RIGHT. IT IS THE ONLY WAY TO HOLD POLITICAL FIGURES RESPONSIBLE. IT IS THE ONLY WAY TO SEE THE CHANGE YOU WANT. 

[bob-belcher]

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[drunkvanity-deactivated20161113]

shout out to the girls that hate their bodies but are trying really really hard to find the beauty and comfort in them because that shit is hard and takes a lot of time and is emotionally exhausting. i’m proud of y’all.

[glitzybutt]

Isn’t Reese witherspoon old enough to portray a presidential candidate where is Legally Blonde: Commander In Chic I’m not fucking playing around

[solangelo-is-my-drug]

In my history class, we were debating about breast feeding and all the boys were like “ew gross women should go in the bathroom or not do that in public” and I never talk in that class, but I felt compelled to input my opinion so I said “men think the display of a woman’s body is good until it’s no longer for their pleasure” and everyone just shut their mouths and looked at me. I’ve never seen so many boys open their mouth to defend themselves and have nothing come out in my life.

[mediamattersforamerica]

This is seriously awesome.

[catcatx-deactivated20200211]

Never thought I would see this on Fox.

[twistedlandstourguide]

Indeed.

[kurlywurlykate-blog]

the news casters next to her are just nodding silently because that lady’s got passion and if anyone gets in her way she is gonna steam roll them.

[wasbella102]

[pyrrhiccomedy]

Astronomers have discovered the largest known structure in the universe, a clump of active galactic cores that stretch 4 billion light-years from end to end. The structure is a light quasar group (LQG), a collection of extremely luminous Galactic Nulcei powered by supermassive central black holes.

So that’s cool and everything, but maybe some of you would be interested to know why this is a significant find? Beyond just its record-setting bigness.

Since Einstein, physicists have accepted something called the Cosmological Principle, which states that the universe looks the same everywhere if you view it on a large enough scale. You might find some weird shit over here, and some other freaky shit over there, but if you pull back the camera far enough, you’ll find that same weird and/or freaky shit cropping up over and over again in a fairly regular distribution. This is because the universe is (probably) infinite in size and (we are pretty darn sure) has, and has always had, the same forces acting on it everywhere.

So why is this new LQG so radical? (It stands for ‘Large Quasar Group,’ btw, not ‘Light Quasar Group.’)

Well, let’s try to comprehend the scale we’re dealing with. A ‘megaparsec,’ written Mpc, is about 3.2 million light years long. The Milky Way is about 0.03 Mpc across (or 100,000 light years). The distance between our galaxy and Andromeda, our closest galactic neighbor, is 0.75 Mpc, or 2.5 million light years. LQGs are usually about 200 Mpc across. Assuming a logarithmic distribution of weird shit outliers (if you don’t know how logarithmic distribution curves work, don’t worry about it), cosmologists predicted that nothing in the universe should be more than 370 Mpc across.

This new LQG is 1200 Mpc long. That’s four billion light years. Four BILLION LIGHT YEARS. Just to travel from one side to the other of this one thing. I mean for fuck’s sake, the universe is only about 14 billion years old! How many of these things could there be? 

Right now it looks like the Cosmological Principle might be out the window, unless physicists can find some way to make the existence of this new LQG work with the math (and boy, are they trying). And that’s totally baffling. It would mean—well, we don’t have any idea what it would mean. That the universe isn’t essentially uniform? That some ‘special’ physics apply/applied in some places but not in others? That Something Happened that is totally outside our current ability to understand or quantify stuff happening?

By the way, no one lives there. The radiation from so many quasars would sterilize rock.

Sources: 1 2 3

[khito-archive-blog]

are you telling us astronomers have discovered something which is literally fucktuple the size of anything else previously estimated to exist

[starryeyed-circusmaster-deactiv]

Anything that fucking rewrites all of what we know about the universe needs to get its ass on my blog. It’s giant, glowy, black hole filled ass. 

[hierofalco-deactivated20151202]

Hot damn. But also, the Hercules–Corona Borealis Great Wall discovered in 2013 is 10 billion light-years by 7.2 billion light-years wide (and 900 million light-years thick).

[clairewolf1992-blog]

How do they just discover something this big how do they see this through a telescope and have it all in view blurry or otherwise and they say, “well fuck me allen this isnt right” this is completely inconceivable to me. I cant fathom this. I feel small. Goodnight

[ujtumblinev]

Best 300 Cosplay ever, in the London Tube

[mamalazzer]

Every time I see these clips I feel like it’s an alternate universe where Draco was always friends with Harry and Ron and they’re going to Hogsmeade on weekends together.

Having a butterbeer at the Three Broomsticks, and gorging on Honeydukes sweets… being snarky and bantery and genuinely fond of each other. And Hermione would be tsking all “Boys!” when they loudly disparage each other from their brooms on the Quidditch pitch.

“Slytherin is going down, Malfoy!”

“When you can actually stay on your broom, Weasley, I’ll take your advice seriously.”

[minajs]

apparently nasa confirmed there’s an ocean on one of Jupiter’s moons say it with me kids: space mermaids

[antihero-complexmoved-deactivat]

Okay, this brought out my inner astronomy nerd, hold onto your hats, folks.

The moon is called Europa, and it doesn’t have just an ocean. It is completely covered in water with a mile-thick sheet of ice over the top.

Now we know that the ice has water under it because once in a while, massive fucking geysers shoot water up into space.

Now this brings up an interesting question about Europa: How in the fuck can the water stay warm enough to be liquid if there’s a mile-thick sheet of ice on top of it? 

And the theorized answer is: Europa has a core that is warm like our own. And it has undersea hydrothermal vents that are causing the geysers.

Now this would keep the water at above-freezing temperatures, and if the hydrothermal vents on Europa act anything like the ones on Earth, we have the potential of them spitting up organic matter from Europa’s core into the oceans.

And guess what that soup of organic matter means? The potential for life.

So yeah. Space mermaids. And a whole lot more.

[niadidas]

Can some astronauts PLEASE go there and drill under the sheet or to be less destructive, go into one of the geyser holes????????????? I’m so curious!!!!!

[60106-deactivated20160403]

when we get killed by aliens cuz we didn’t wanna mind our damn business I hope everyone remembers this post

[2016meet-the-candidates]

=HIS POSITIONS=

The Economy and other Domestic Topics 

Supports raising the minimum wage

Opposes The Trans Pacific Partnership

Supports a tax increase on the wealthy, 90% tax for top earners

Supports the Affordable Care Act, as well as universal health care

States that income inequality is a growing issue in the US

Supports President Obama’s executive order on immigration.

Supports the Voting Rights Act

Supports net neutrality

Advocates free college

Foreign Policy

Relatively pro-Israel and critical of Palestine, said that Israel was provoked in the 2014 Gaza War, and that Hamas does not want the country to exist

Mixed history on war, voted against fighting in the Gulf War and 2003′s Invasion of Iraq, but has supported the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan, the 1999 bombing of Yugoslavia and supports drone strikes.

In regards to Islamic State, he is against boots on the ground to combat the group, but has supported the bombing campaign against them in Iraq and Syria

Supports negotiations with Iran to freeze Iranian nuclear activity, against hawkish attitudes towards the country

LGBT Rights

Supports LGBT Rights

Voted against DOMA

Supported the Supreme Court’s decision to legalize gay marriage nationwide

Women’s Rights 

Supports abortion and contraceptives

Supported the Paycheck Fairness Act

Police, Crime, and Gun Control

Against gun control. Voted against federal background checks and supported the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act, which bars the victims of mass shootings from suing weapons companies for making weapons involved with such a crime.

Against death penalty, supports life imprisonment instead

Against police militarization.

On the fence on legalizing recreational marijuana, supports legalizing medicinal marijuana.

Environment

Pro environment

Voted for protecting ocean, coral, and Great Lake ecosystems

Voted against speeding up approval of forest thinning projects.

OTHER CANDIDATES: Clinton, Paul