Posts Tagged ‘quantum mechanics’

F***ing magnets, how do they work?

Tuesday, August 17th, 2010

One curse of having a brain comprised of 20ish billion neurons (and 7,000 times as many synaptic connections*) is that music can get seriously stuck in it.

Awful, terrible, mind-numbingly stupid music.

Case in point, the Insane Clown Posse’s tune “Miracles”:

If you haven’t listened to this addictive form of brain corrosion closely, here’s a sample of the lyrics:

The sun and the moon, and even Mars
The Milky Way and fucking shooting stars
UFOs, a river flows
Plant a little seed and nature grows
Niagara falls and the pyramids
Everything you believed in as kids
Fucking rainbows after it rains
There’s enough miracles here to blow your brains

It gets better. Better being worse, of course.

About halfway through, ICP tells its juggalo followers that magnets are magical and all scientists are liars: (more…)

What does it look like inside of a black hole?

Tuesday, June 8th, 2010

According to Andrew Hamilton, an astrophysicist who presented at the World Science Festival’s (WSF) “Black Holes and Holographic Worlds” event, it looks a bit like this:

inside of a black hole at the World Science Festival

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