The Babe with the Power

Hello friend, :)

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Welcome to my little tumble-log =}
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Perhaps we shall follow one another at times, through this curious, beautiful, tangled maze...
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About me: physicist/programmer/teacher, in Melbourne, Australia.
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About my tumblr. I’ve not exactly decided what my ‘theme’ is yet, I just reblog stuff I see that I like. So far it has turned out to be mainly lots of Whovian stuff (go Whovians!), as well as some visual math/physics stuff that I am interested in :)
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So, now that you're here, I invite you just to stop, just for a moment, stop, before you head off into another room....read the following words, written close on one hundred years ago now.
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"I am standing on the threshold, about to enter a room.

It is a complicated business. In the first place I must shove against an atmosphere pressing with a force of fourteen pounds on every square inch of my body.

I must make sure of landing on a plank travelling at twenty miles a second round the sun - a fraction of a second too early or too late, the plank would be miles away.

I must do this whilst hanging from a round planet, head outward in space, and with a wind of aether blowing at no one knows how many miles a second through every instice of my body."


[Arthur S. Eddington, British Astrophysicist, in 'The nature of the Physical World' (1928) ]

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Enjoy! and thanks for visiting :)
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