“Anyone not shocked by quantum mechanics has not yet understood it.”
Niels Bohr (7 October 1885 – 18 November 1962)
The Great Wall of China, 1907 by Herbert G. Ponting
IC405 in Ha (Flaming Star Nebula) by swag72 on Flickr.
MergeMosaic_clone by pfile on Flickr.
How to Simulate the Universe on your Laptop (by minutephysics)
This is a galaxy (by apontzen).
Via: http://www.microsiervos.com/archivo/ciencia/esto-es-una-galaxia.html
Most Accurate Cosmos Simulation
The Bolshoi simulation is the most accurate cosmological simulation of the evolution of the large-scale structure of the universe yet made.
Source: Univ. of California, Santa Cruz
http://www.laboratoryequipment.com/news-Most-Accurate-Cosmos-Simulation-093011.aspx
(via skeptv)
cwnl:
Most Complete Universe Simulations Visualized in 3D
Run on NASA AMES’ supercomputer constellation, the evolution of the largest structures in the Universe are here simulated. This Bolshoi simulation (based on the Lambda Cold Dark Matter model) is designed to study how dark matter halos evolved.
(via kenobi-wan-obi)