Sunday, December 20th, 2009
Flexible or not
Nice video that shows up us how the mind get confused with some little points on a chess board… Is it flexible or not? Obviously, the answer is on the video. Enjoy!
Nice video that shows up us how the mind get confused with some little points on a chess board… Is it flexible or not? Obviously, the answer is on the video. Enjoy!
Starting from a small object in the universe, our pretty Moon, we will see in this video a comparison with planets such as Mercury, Venus, Mars, Earth, Saturn, going through our Sun up to the biggest star in the whole universe (known one): VY Canis Majoris. It is really awesome, isn’t it?
Via | microsiervos
Probably, most of you, readers, already know the videos of Did you know?, which are centered in giving social media related data, livened up by good music and images.
Well, some day, researching on YouTube I found the video in this post, similar to Did you know? ones, just instead of giving data about social media, [...]
I think this video could explain it to you. It is an animation based on Hubble and computing calculations, because the fact is really slow, so we can’t “record” it. The nearest galaxies (one each other) are separated about 200.000 light years.
Aurora Borealis
Do you know what is it? Auroras, sometimes called the northern and southern [...]
Janna Levin, a professor of physics and astronomy at Barnard College of Columbia University, narrates this two-minute video about The Big Bang. Watch it in high definition here.
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This video tries to explain you in the more pedagogical way, how to visualize, starting from first, up to ten dimensions. Personally, I don’t think it is the best, but just a curious way to figure it out.
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