Plasma Bubbles Again
Tuesday, June 27th, 2006
We can’t get enough of Plasma bubbles. This times very very hot bubbles though.
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Archive for the 'physics' Category
some impossible things can be done
Thursday, June 22nd, 2006
just a charming photo series on flickr — follow the “impossible is nothing (Set)” links to the right at cynx’ flickr-Archiv.. (found at spreeblick)
no popping eye balls
Saturday, June 17th, 2006
but popping ball lightning (or at least ball lightning like plasma clouds). These are generated by an underwater discharge of a lousy 60 Ampere (so not for pocket use). Experiment (and image) are from Max-Plack-Institute für Plasmaphysik (german). An englisch translation is available at physorg.com.
tracking the dust
Saturday, June 17th, 2006
It is sometimes interesting to observe how ideas breed. Since some years there has been Ken Perlins vision of a Laser-Leia – or err – a teddybear? – on his marvelous and famous homepage (-> which had been included in the Whitney artport!). Seems last year (more…)
expensive toys 1
Friday, June 16th, 2006
the world’s most expensive toy car track is probably the a scientific experiment for magnetically leviated transport systems.
As you can read here the cars are actually hoovering by means of high temperature superconductors (like the little piece shown on the left (image from here)).
As you can read here the cars are actually hoovering by means of high temperature superconductors (like the little piece shown on the left (image from here)).
Just the sentence “The model can be used [for] a fast transportation system to students and adults.” seems mysterious to me – what about chimney sweeps, locomotive drivers, and other minorities?
pingK pong
Thursday, June 8th, 2006
As some readers may know, we like the game pong and awkward versions of it. (see also pong.mythos.) Apparently other people share this passion …as e.g. viennese computer science students (called emcgames), who did this great pink pingk pong.
Unfortunately it seems the game is for windows only.
kotaku called pingK an Electric Kool-Aid Acid pong, however this is a strange kind of acid sound in the video … or lets say the truth: i think it is better to switch the sound off.
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Resonance Rice
Thursday, June 8th, 2006
real (android) woman
Friday, June 2nd, 2006
My little remix of the original video at youtube. :-)
The android is the work of electrical engineers at the University of Osaka.
From the article on national geographic news:
“Repliee Q1 appeared on June 9 at the 2005 World Expo in Japan, where she gestured, blinked, spoke, and even appeared to breathe. …the android is partially covered in skinlike silicone. Q1 is powered by a nearby air compressor, and has 31 points of articulation in its upper body.”
Whatsoever- one thing I learned from the video: real (android?) women wear pink jackets.
labs that never sleep
Wednesday, May 31st, 2006
look at the unseeable or: daily life with a particle accelerator described by Dawn Stanton in this article by symmetrymagazine.org.
A little excerpt from the text:
“Nearby, Marie-Claude Cousinou of France’s Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille views a constantly changing 3D chart of red, blue, and yellow bars: the detector’s interpretations of electromagnetic energy, hadronic energy, and missing energy, respectively. Sometimes the amount of missing energy, compared to the bars of known energy, is astounding: a yellow skyscraper amidst blue and red tents.”