Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Genius glasses

  In an episode of Adventure Time, Finn puts on glasses that turn him into a genius.  After his satori, he exclaims, "Everything small is just a small version of something big!  I understand EVERYTHING!"

  The hermetic principle visualized is Planes of Correspondence, "As above, so below." - The Kybalion




  The image below contains an opening image of a simulation approximating the structure of the universe as developed by The Millennium Simulation.
The Millennium Run used more than 10 billion particles to trace the evolution of the matter distribution in a cubic region of the Universe over 2 billion light-years on a side. It kept busy the principal supercomputer at the Max Planck Society's Supercomputing Centre in Garching, Germany for more than a month. By applying sophisticated modelling techniques to the 25 Tbytes of stored output, Virgo scientists have been able to recreate evolutionary histories both for the 20 million or so galaxies which populate this enormous volume and for the supermassive black holes which occasionally power quasars at their hearts. By comparing such simulated data to large observational surveys, one can clarify the physical processes underlying the buildup of real galaxies and black holes.
  Following, the images scale down to smaller objects until a representation of neurons is displayed.
  I wish I had those glasses! >.>


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