What would a swimming pool look like if you spent $1,500,000,000 on it?
Like this:
The San Alfonso del Mar swimming pool is more than a kilometre long and holds 66 million gallons of crystal-clear water down to a depth of 35 metres.
Science T-shirts
Just a selection of my current favourite science T-shirts:
Schrödinger’s Cat
This is a play on the famous Schrödinger’s Cat paradox.
Glass Half …
This makes fun of physicists’ obsession for precision and accuracy. I think it’s quite a complement actually.
Quantum Dot
This pokes fun at the wavefunction collapse – the idea that a quantum mechanical system can be in more than one state until “observed”.
Snakes on an Inclined Plane
I’m not even going to explain this one. Either you get it, or you don’t!
Ajolote
Following on from such weird and strange (and ugly) creatures as the blobfish, the komondor, the dumbo octopus and the glass squid …
I bring you:
The Ajolote
The ajolote (Amphisbaenia Bipedidae Bipes Biporus) lives underground and eats insects and small lizards.
Meteor over Western Canada
A meteor entered Earth’s atmosphere over the Alberta-Saskatchewan border on Thursday night and the first videos of its entry are starting to filter through onto YouTube.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=e_2aX-784sw
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=PSL3b6bCR7s
This is some of the best meteor footage I’ve ever seen.
Aerogel
Aerogel (often called solid smoke) is one of the world’s weirdest materials. In the picture blelow a piece of aerogel with a mass of just over two grams is holding up a brick with a mass more than a thousand times larger.
