One picnic table. One million memories. (Taken with Instagram at Daretown Lake)
2“ take what i have known and break it all apart
for you my God are greater still ”
words are not my strong point.
the truth will set you free
i’m trying.
0“you are precious to me”
—words in my dreams from such an improbable source. The subconscious plays strange tricks. Those words from those lips have no basis in reality and I don’t particularly care for them to.
But. When I feel so unlovely and unworthy now. There is some desperate longing to hear those same words from the only one who can impart worth and loveliness. But somehow truth in that is even more difficult to imagine.
0some days i hate all this onlineness.
it would be so much better if i could just see you.
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I love finishing projects. I love this scarf. I love that it absolutely belongs in the woods. Now I need to find some sort of sylvan sprite to come model it for me. (Taken with instagram)
1“ When you can’t run, you crawl, and when you can’t crawl - when you can’t do that…
you find someone to carry you. ”
to everyone who’s helped carry me. thank you.
0Today i picked up the needles and the yarn again
—a long-forgotten project waiting my return
A moment to find my place again. Where to pick up. How it’s all supposed to go.
But then—my hands remember what they’ve known for so long. It fits again. And it is good, so good, to pick the work back up again and shape what may someday be something beautiful.
It’s like that with us too. Picking up and finding the place again.
And I hope—
One day we will be something beautiful
“Draw me an atom”
This amazing gif by xverdxse is close to my idea of what an atom looks like. Far from the schoolbook picture of a clump of snooker ball protons and neutrons encircled by hoops of electrons the real picture of an atom is more like a vibrating cloud. A cloud? Yeah, a specific type of cloud called a probability density function. Woah maths alert! WEEOO-WEEOO, code red, code red!
Relax.
A probability density function (PDF) is just a measure (function) of how likely it is (probability) to ‘find’ the atom in a given region of space (density). The thickness of the cloud in a small region is proportional to the likelihood of finding the atom centered within that region. In the image above, it is most likely to be found in the center of the black region, and the likelihood of it being found further away gets smaller and smaller until it’s nearly zero outside.
Every frame of this image corresponds to making a single measurement of it’s position. If it weren’t on a loop and we waited long enough, we should expect it to sooner or later make a large jump to a grey or even white area.
This is how quantum tunneling works: a particle confined to a domain will at any given time have a small but finite probability of being found outside its confinement region! Even a tennis ball has a finite (but astronomically tiny) probability of tunneling through a solid wall.
So what do atoms actually look like? Well, they don’t. They area collection of volumeless point-particles that don’t have any physical shape that you can draw on a piece of paper. However they have an effective shape that is described by (amongst other things and depending on what kind of measurements you make) the PDF.
If you take a step back from your screen and look at the above ‘atom’, you can kind of consider it as a single solid entity even though it is an amorphous cloud of pixels. This is all we can say about the ‘true’ shape of the atom and is a visual approximation we have to make if we want to try to understand what atoms look like and not chew off our own faces in philosophical frustration.
this is awesome. I’m a nerd.
(via scinerds)
993You are good when there’s nothing good in me.
(via beauty-out-of-ashes)
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