Joined November 2021
142 Photos and videos
Me learning Chemistry
3
4
40
9,622
“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.” ― Richard P. Feynman
3
24
57
9,384
28
221
2,983
267,534
“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.” ― Albert Einstein
6
35
184
22,940
The dark side of Saturn.
11
58
8,569
"I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is a real factor in scientific research." - A. Einstein
5
32
114
12,038
Life Lessons from Nikola Tesla (1856 - 1943): • Genius requires solitude. • Our mind is only the receiver. We need to tune it with the universe. • When someone says it can't be done, do it anyways. • Money does not represent such a value as people have placed upon it.
5
38
183
13,932
Legendary Apollo project programmer and computer scientist Margaret Hamilton, standing next to listings of the software she and her MIT team produced for the Apollo program, 1969. (MIT Museum image)
1
15
77
7,948
It is easier to say ammonium chloride than NH₄Cl
7
9
135
75,499
Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg and Wolfgang Pauli discussing quantum mechanics, 1938.
21
133
9,590
244 is anti-perfect. The proper divisors are 1, 2, 4, 61, and 122, & adding their reversal is 1 2 4 16 221 = 244.
3
4
30
5,247
Nikola Tesla sitting in his laboratory with his "magnifying transmitter."
4
22
138
10,595
Arguably the most intelligent photo ever taken: Solvay Conference on quantum mechanics at the Institute International de Physique Solvay, Brussels, Belgium, in 1927. 17 of the 29 attendees were or became Nobel Prize winners.
2
27
142
41,138
Astronomer Vera Rubin at work at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, AZ, 1965.  Rubin transformed modern physics and astronomy with her observations showing that galaxies and stars are immersed in the gravitational grip of vast clouds of dark matter.
5
11
4,628
Prof. Stephen Hawking in the 1970’s with his children Robert and Lucy.
4
16
276
38,317
"Teachers who make physics class boring are criminals." - Prof. Walter Lewin
27
158
1,346
193,481
A famous image of A. Einstein writing physics equations on a blackboard during a lecture at Caltech, c. 1931.
9
68
8,691
Basic physics
41
200
2,798
258,599
Carl Anderson with the magnet cloud chamber with which he discovered the positive electron, or positron (in 2 Aug, 1932) For this work he won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1936. (Cr: Caltech Archives Image)
1
5
45
9,190
Albert Einstein’s papers, pipe, ashtray and other personal belongings on his table -- just as the Nobel Prize-winning physicist left it – taken mere hours after he died, Princeton, N.J., April 18, 1955. (Ralph Morse/Life Pictures/Getty Images)
14
31
386
153,412