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Imagining the Tenth Dimension

So the tenth dimension is all the possible timelines from all the possible starting conditions of the universe treated as a point? My. Brain. Hurts.

Blink and you’ll miss us.

650 Million Years In 1:20 Min.by xchristox

Galactic Scale Mindf*ck

Patience… this doesn’t happen all at once.

My Questions Answered!

Ask OxSciBlog: Higgs Boson – University of Oxford

As you’ve been busy sending in your questions for Oxford scientists I thought we ought to start giving some answers:

First up is a question from Daniel Griliopoulos which is answered by Alan Barr from Oxford’s Department of Physics.

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Q: What’s going to happen if they don’t find the Higgs Boson?

[Also regarding that; to this layman, it just looks like physicists are trying to bury something they don't understand (gravity) in another fundamental particle, am I being unfair?]

Alan Barr: The Higgs mechanism was proposed by Prof Peter Higgs of [more...]

Height on a Log scale

He used a logarithmic scale. A Log scale. How beautiful is this?

xkcd – A Webcomic – Height

Also, that cat at the top-right is the size of several hundred million galaxies.