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Dropping Ice Down a 90m Borehole in Antarctica Makes a Very Unexpected Sound

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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

These are a few of my favorite things nebulae!

From top to bottom:

NGC 6720 ~ Ring Nebula NGC 6543 ~ Cat’s Eye Nebula

NGC 7293 ~ Helix Nebula (also called Eye of God“ and Eye of Sauron“)

IC 418 ~ Spirograph Nebula 

MyCn18 ~ Engraved Hourglass Nebula

NGC 6826 or Caldwell 15 ~ the Blinking Planetary 

The Sun, viewed from the same point on Earth, over 24 hours

Me doing nothing while my life falls apart

look at these beautiful artistic impressions of the new planet discovered by a 17 year old three days into their NASA internship

How the Geneva Drive (the mechanical step that makes the second hand on a clock work by turning constant rotation into intermittent motion) works.