This one's titled, "Watcha look'n at?"

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This might also be titled.

Wait, wait till you fall asleep and I am going to eat your brains.

 

(Atti)TudeCat - YouTube sensation waiting to happen. T-shirts available soon

Catittude!​

 

Cozumel is a great place. I have been there a number of times. This was back in the days where there was only like 2 pay phones on the island. The Vista Del Mar (our usual hotel) had no phones in the room. If you really needed to make a call, the usual, procedure was to go to the boat dock and have one of the captains do a ship to shore to the mainland. So calls were rare. It was paradise.

I just wonder how things have changed.

Not much really. Now Captain gives you his personal mobile for you to make the call.

 

nice picture

Thanks. I just used my Nexus 7 table for most shots.

The end of the tulip season.

 

Absolutely beautiful time-lapse video in the Mojave desert, with soul-transporting music to match:

 

Yet another beautiful pic taken by my lovely wife using her Samsung S8. This time of a bee pollinating a flower on the peach tree in our backyard:

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An award-winning pic.... an unbelievable light-emitting single atom:

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An award-winning pic.... an unbelievable light-emitting single atom:

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Wait. Shouldn't the act of observation reduce the probability that the atom is even there to be observed? Schrödinger's cat and all that?

 

Wait. Shouldn't the act of observation reduce the probability that the atom is even there to be observed? Schrödinger's cat and all that?

 

Looks like there's a hole in that atom, dear Liza.


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Wait. Shouldn't the act of observation reduce the probability that the atom is even there to be observed? Schrödinger's cat and all that?

I think you mean Heisenberg's uncertainty principle which applies to electrons much more than atoms - even less to house cats (unless they are in a box).

In the case of Schrödinger's cat, that specifically says you do not know a subatomic particle's state until you observe it (and how you observe it). So, in the photo, it applies perfectly as described -it is a little green dot (there, in the center).

 

I think you mean Heisenberg's uncertainty principle which applies to electrons much more than atoms - even less to house cats (unless they are in a box).

In the case of Schrödinger's cat, that specifically says you do not know a subatomic particle's state until you observe it (and how you observe it). So, in the photo, it applies perfectly as described -it is a little green dot (there, in the center).

So I merged the two theories -- which are related.

And it's not only electrons that are effected. The uncertainty is a function of the mass of the observed particle, the amount of energy required to observe it, and the accuracy with which one wishes to ascertain its position or velocity.

 

An award-winning pic.... an unbelievable light-emitting single atom:

It's a cool picture but the description is a little chafing. You're not "seeing" an atom, which would be FAR too small to be seen. You are seeing the result of a photon striking a sensor or a grain of film. Making an atom emit photons and then detecting them doesn't strike me as being all that novel. Paring down the scale so that you're working with just one atom may be?

 

So I merged the two theories -- which are related.

And it's not only electrons that are effected. The uncertainty is a function of the mass of the observed particle, the amount of energy required to observe it, and the accuracy with which one wishes to ascertain its position or velocity.

Yes, Heisenberg's principle applies to atoms as well. Although in a lesser manner. That sort of thing can be observed in a bose-einstein condensate.

 

Yet another beauty taken in my backyard, by my lovely wife using her Samsung S8:

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So I've been gone for a while. Here's one of my favorite pics from Costa Rica.

 

So I've been gone for a while. Here's one of my favorite pics from Costa Rica.
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Say, isn't that one of those deadly-poisonous frogs?

 

Say, isn't that one of those deadly-poisonous frogs?

Only if you lick them.

 

Say, isn't that one of those deadly-poisonous frogs?

Actually not. This one is, though.

 

Actually not. This one is, though.
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