“Has dominado mi alma, mi cerebro, mis energías. Te convertiste en la encarnación tangible de ese ideal nunca visto cuyo recuerdo obsesiona a los artistas como un sueño inefable. Te idolatraba. Sentía celos de todas las personas con las que hablabas. Te quería solo para mi. Únicamente era feliz cuando estaba contigo. Sabía que había visto la perfección cara a cara, y que, ante mis ojos, el mundo se había convertido en algo maravilloso; demasiado maravilloso”
— El retrato de Dorian Gray
ivan aksenchuk, {1968} русалочка (the little mermaid)
“I’d like somebody to finally acknowledge and admit that showing balls on a bed sheet doesn’t cut it as a picture of reality.”
Okay, I admit it: visualizing General Relativity as balls on a bedsheet doesn’t make a whole lot of sense. For one, if this is what gravity is supposed to be, what pulls the balls “down” onto the bedsheet? For another, if space is three dimensional, why are we talking about a 2D “fabric” of space? And for another, why do these lines curve away from the mass, rather than towards it?
It’s true: this visualization of General Relativity is highly flawed. But, believe it or not, all visualizations of General Relativity inherently have similar flaws. The reason is that space itself is not an observable thing! In Einstein’s theory, General Relativity provides the link between the matter and energy in the Universe, which determines the geometric curvature of spacetime, and how the rest of the matter and energy in the Universe moves in response to that. In this Universe, we can only measure matter and energy, not space itself. We can visualize it how we like, but all visualizations are inherently flawed.
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Last night i saw declan mckenna and it was so fUn and i am crying
by Vo Dahn
Exclusive photos! Step inside the star-studded National Theatre gala in honor of CURIOUS INCIDENT’s Broadway arrival
Maybe love will set you free.
BONES AND ALL - 2022, dir. Luca Guadagnino adapted from the novel by Camille DeAngelis
Will we one day explore the worlds of our solar system? How long will this take?
We have a diversity of worlds in our solar system. Majestic places…
Imagine being able to visit Mars and its hostile climate. Imagine being able to visit the moons of Jupiter, observe Io: the volcanic moon, Europa, the frozen moon and Ganymede a moon larger than Mercury itself and that has its own magnetic field. Imagine visiting the moons of Saturn and maybe passing close to your rings… Imagine orbiting or floating through Titan’s atmosphere and closely watching its lakes and seas of methane and liquid ethane. Imagine getting to know the geysers of Enceladus, the valleys of Tethys, and the craters of Mimas… Imagine being able to see the moons of Uranus and have a view of Verona Rupes, the largest cliff of the solar system, located in Miranda. Imagine being able to be in Triton and to be able to observe the cold and azualdo Neptune in the sky…
Rick and Morty
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvupnpGelCE
Peter Pan (2003) | dir. P. J. Hogan