“Jack and Jill went up the hill to have a little fun, but stupid Jill forgot the pill and now they have a son.”
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My mind says no, my heart says hello
Haworthia Cooperi Obtusa.
Love the clear windows and fat leaves 😍
75 billion cells working to keep you alive in a universe where you are made of stardust and capable of incredible feats; a universe where you can create infinite scenarios in your mind and share them or keep them to yourself; a universe where one small action can impact your entire life, and you’re sitting on tumblr eating nachos in your underwear. You made the right choice.
There is a Diamond ExoPlanet and it’s worth is $26.9 Nonillion.
If we stacked all that money in $50 notes, this would be the outcome. The earth(on the left at the bottom) is used for size comparison.
$26.900,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.000
“Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.”
— Stephen R. Covey
Z-one Self Balancing Electric Scooter
Dear me, silence is not a song you should know all the words to.
Shane Koyczan (via quotemadness)
Physicist Create a Fluid With Negative Mass
Physicists from Washington State university have created a liquid with negative mass meaning that when you push it, instead of accelerating in that direction, it accelerates backwards.
Matter can have a negative mass much the same way that particles can be negatively charged. Newton’s second law of motion (F=ma) tells us that mass will accelerate in the direction of the force so we can deduce that matter with a negative mass would do the opposite and accelerate against the force.
To create the conditions for negative mass, Peter Engels and his team started by cooling rubidium atoms to a Bose-Einstein condensate meaning they reached very near absolute 0. The researchers used lasers to trap the atoms in an area less than 100 microns across and allow high energy particles to escape cooling them further. Then to create negative mass, the physicists applied a second set of lasers to change the way atoms spin back and forth. They then removed the first set of lasers causing the rubidium to rush out and appear to hit some sort of invisible wall; behaving as if it had a negative mass.
What’s great about this is the control we have over the negative mass without any other complications. This gives us a new tool we can use to engineer experiments in astrophysics looking at neutron stars, black holes, dark energy and a lot more.