expose-the-light:

What if Leonardo da Vinci designed the Large Hadron Collider?

Leonardo da Vinci may have been a forward-thinking engineer, but what if he had gotten into the particle physics game? CERN researcher Dr. Sergio Cittolin brought out his (not so) inner Renaissance Man with these illustrations of the Large Hadron Collider in Leonardo’s style.

This actually just made my life. My favorite historical figure mixed with my favorite place on the earth.

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liveinthisskin:

yuki-kiku:

yourcreepyuncle:

actually

oh

now I understand. 

jtotheizzoe:

Measuring the Universe

Measuring things that we can touch, feel and see up close is easy. No matter the exact method, we mostly just use big rulers down here on Earth.

But how do we measure the universe? How do we tally distances on a scale of time and space so immense that our brain can quite literally not reconcile them? 

Here’s a fantastic animation by the Royal Observatory to answer that question.

(by Royal Observatory Greenwich, tip o’ the glass to thekidshouldseethis)

#a moment of silence for the cameramen who died for these shots

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ishipanythingthatbreathes:

MUST REBLOG ON THORSDAY.

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fuckyeahbiomedicina:

Steps of Scientific Method - Meme version

I’m not one to reblog meta-memes, but I think anyone who’s been in research as long as me knows that, at least 99% of the time, that last box should be this:

Followed by this:

(Found these on WhatShouldWeCallGradSchool.tumblr.com, which is like therapy, only way funnier. You should be following it.)

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