Posted in Misc on Jul 4th, 2008
As American’s look up tonight to see the flashes of light produced by fireworks, they need to realize that those light bursts last a very long time. To get a really really REALLY short flash one needs to work a lot harder.
Researchers have created the shortest-ever flash of light which lasted only 80 attoseconds (billionths [...]
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Posted in Misc on Jan 9th, 2008
At last year’s TED conference one of the lectures that was taped was by the polymath and physicist Murray Gell-Mann. I highly recommend taking a look. http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/194
He talks a lot about symmetry. Symmetry goes way beyond simple mirror images about a line. Amazing symmetries also exists in magnificantly complex structures such as as [...]
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Posted in Ponderings on Nov 9th, 2007
I’ve been studying Futurist paintings for some time. The notion of using different representations of movement and change in a still image is intriguing to me. I also continue to read theoretical physics. In my mind an artist must tap from all manner of sources and combine this with their unique experiences [...]
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