JAH

Civil engineering student and future quantum physicist.

[goddofthesun]

Gratitude and love are the highest vibrations in existence. Give thanks for your current reality, love yourself and others unconditionally, and see your desires manifest in the most miraculous ways you can imagine.

Liam Tinker (via liamtinker)

[chaosophia218]

Quantum Experiment shows Time is only an Illusion. Tiny bits of matter are shot towards a screen that has two slits in it. On the other side of the screen, a high tech video camera records where each photon lands. When scientists close one slit, the camera will show us an expected pattern. But when both slits are opened, an “interference pattern” emerges – they begin to act like waves. It means that each photon individually goes through both slits at the same time and interferes with itself, but it also goes through one slit, and it goes through the other. Furthermore, it goes through neither of them. The single piece of matter becomes a “wave” of potentials, expressing itself in the form of multiple possibilities, and this is why we get the interference pattern. How can a single piece of matter exist and express itself in multiple states, without any physical properties, until it is “measured” or “observed?” Furthermore, how does it choose which path, out of multiple possibilities, it will take? Then, when an “observer” decides to measure and look at which slit the piece of matter goes through, the “wave” of potential paths collapses into one single path. The particle goes from becoming, again, a “wave” of potentials into one particle taking a single route. It’s as if the particle knows it’s being watched. The observer has some sort of effect on the behaviour of the particle. This quantum uncertainty is defined as the ability, “according to the quantum mechanic laws that govern subatomic affairs, of a particle like an electron to exist in a murky state of possibility - to be anywhere, everywhere or nowhere at all - until clicked into substantiality by a laboratory detector or an eyeball.” According to physicist Andrew Truscott, the experiment suggests that “reality does not exist unless we are looking at it”, and that we are living in a holographic-type of universe.  The delayed choice experiment illustrates how what happens in the present can change what happens(ed) in the past. It also shows how time can go backwards, how cause and effect can be reversed, and how the future caused the past. Scientists in France shot photons into an apparatus and showed that their actions could retroactively change something which had already happened. “If we attempt to attribute an objective meaning to the quantum state of a single system, curious paradoxes appear, like influence of future actions on past events, even after these events have been irrevocably recorded.” Imagine a star emitting a photon billions of years ago, heading in the direction of planet Earth. In between, there is a galaxy. As a result of what’s known as “gravitational lensing,” the light will have to bend around the galaxy in order to reach Earth, so it has to take one of two paths, go left or go right. Billions of years later, if one decides to set up an apparatus to “catch” the photon, the resulting pattern would be (as explained above in the double slit experiment) an interference pattern. This demonstrates that the photon took one way, and it took the other way. One could also choose to “peek” at the incoming photon, setting up a telescope on each side of the galaxy to determine which side the photon took to reach Earth. The very act of measuring or “watching” which way the photon comes in means it can only come in from one side. The pattern will no longer be an interference pattern representing multiple possibilities, but a single clump pattern showing “one” way. What does this mean? It means how we choose to measure “now” affects what direction the photon took billions of years ago. Our choice in the present moment affected what had already happened in the past. This makes absolutely no sense, which is a common phenomenon when it comes to quantum physics. Regardless of our ability make sense of it, it’s real. This experiment also suggests that quantum entanglement exists regardless of time. Meaning two bits of matter can actually be entangled, again, in time. Time as we measure it and know it, doesn’t really exist.

[fffendi-deactivated20190324]

[tobeagenius]

❝ Everything we do, every thought we’ve ever had, is produced by the human brain. But exactly how it operates remains one of the biggest unsolved mysteries, and it seems the more we probe its secrets, the more surprises we find. ❞

[tinysinner]

like for donald trump, reblog for this piece of grass

[boredpanda]

[flashlights-n-traintimes]

National Geographic photographers are metal as fuck

[hypnotic-flow]

actually thought about doing this for a profession..

[annietarasova]

Acai bowls for lunch are 101% acceptable 🤗 Thank you @speedoscafe for satisfying our acai cravings 👏🏼 #vegan

IG: @annietarasova

[lovegerardfairley]

The universe is always speaking to you and guiding you. It’s in you. It is you.

[benzank]

Ben Zank, 2015

[thenordroom]

Best of 2015: Attic Bedrooms

I’ve posted a lot of gorgeous interiors this year, so I thought about making a ‘Best of 2015′ post series. And the first one is about attic bedrooms, I know how you all love them!

Blog post source: x x x x x x x x x x x

[indica-lungs]

Chiquita Banana is absolutely caked in trichomes.

[allofthemath]

This is the follow-up to squine and cosquine, and I find students find it really cool. Are there any other shapes someone has done this for?

[the-telescope-times]

M 57

Original 7000 X 6500 image zoomed to 100%. It can be found here.

Credit: NASA, ESA, C.R. O'Dell (Vanderbilt University), and D. Thompson (Large Binocular Telescope Observatory)

[teambartonromanoffsaysbye-deact]

Happy Birthday, Ela! [Part 3 of 4] └ space. Yes, space is beyond awesome, but I’m telling you, @karascap, you make this little planet here a pretty nice place too.

[startswithabang]

Gift This, Not That: Year In Space vs. Space Views From Hubble Calendars

“This calendar has graced my office wall each year for the past three years, now, and will be making an encore appearance all 2016 long. If you’ve got a space, science or astronomy lover in your life, or if you happen to be one yourself, don’t miss the opportunity to deliver the Universe to them each and every day. You won’t regret it!”

For the space, science or astronomy enthusiast, there’s nothing like looking up at the Universe with your own eyes and discovering it. But during the day, while you’re seated at your desk, office or computer, many of us crave connecting with the Universe then, even if briefly, even if only for a moment. And there are many, many wall calendar options out there for you to choose from. But despite the efforts of many major publishers, like Scientific American (above), they fail to engage on the five major points: size, astronomical events, historical happenings, scientific information, and bonuses like extra pictures, scientist profiles and more. There is one calendar, though — the Planetary Society’s Year In Space 2016 calendar — that satisfies on all fronts.

Find out more, including how to get it and how to win one for free, over on Forbes!

[sci-universe]

Our amazing home

Views from the International Space Station remain to be stunning. Marvel at the auroras, sunrises, oceans, the Milky Way, lightning, cities at night, clouds, and the thin band of atmosphere that protects us from space.

This timelapse was captured by European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst in 2014 and the full video (which can be seen here) combines 12 500 images taken by him during his six-month mission. Watching out of the window is just a free time activity for astronauts: highlights of Alexander’s mission included installing ESA’s furnace that can suspend and cool molten metal in mid-air, a spacewalk to maintain and improve the Space Station, and the docking of Europe’s last Automated Transfer Vehicle – the largest spacecraft to supply the research centre.

footage copyright: ESA/NASA

[the-telescope-times]

                       It might not be ENDLESS wonder…                                        but close enough.

JN Ph7.5

Original un-cropped graphic Credit: Andrew Z. Colvin find it here.