Palaeoart

Why is most of advanced physics just math ?

One of my professors was asked the same question and let me paraphrase his response:

You give up on intuition when it gives up on you.

One of the many reasons why most of physics is deeply mathematical is because our intuition alone is unable to explain all the results that we observe in nature and when that happens, we rely on mathematical theories to shed light on the nature of reality

have y’all seen that nasa pic of the earth with the sun behind it on the night time side it really really fucked me up my own soul became solid and like………….. weeped!

Brightest stars in night sky

Me doing nothing while my life falls apart

Listen to the sound of wikipedia

This is a way to listen to changes to wikipedia. You are literally listening to knowledge being added to the world.

Pluck sounds are an addition, strings are subtractions, and the pitch says how how big the edit is. My heart shudders at this I love it so much.

the space race may be the funniest point in history period and i'll stand by that. the US is like "yes whoever gets into space first will prove once and for all that our economic model is superior and that we are, in general, the superior country of superior and smarter people." then the soviets just went and did it and the US freaked out and needed to cover their ass so were like "WE MEAN THE MOON, WE MEAN THE FIRST TO LAND ON THE MOON."

This image of Jupiter was taken by Juno on December 16 and then processed by citizen scientist David Marriott.

Image credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / David Marriott