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Take the number of GIFs you have, divide by 3. If it is a decimal round up or down as need to the nearest whole number. That GIF is how you feel about math class.

irrationalmathobsessions:

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bitchville:

For the past 13 years, German photographer Bernhard Edmaier has been taking astonishing photos of landscapes shaped in the course of natural geological processes, without any human influence or manipulation. The results are truly inspiring.

“Driven by his perennial interest in natural phenomena, Bernhard Edmaier travels extensively to deserted and still untouched corners of the globe to gather material for his books and other photographic projects.”

Aerial Photography by Bernhard Edmaier

the-star-stuff:

Top 5 Implications of Finding the Higgs Boson 

5. The Origin of Mass

The Higgs boson has long been thought the key to resolving the mystery of the origin of mass. If physicists confirm that the Higgs boson exists, the discovery would also confirm that the Higgs mechanism for particles to acquire mass is correct. And, it may offer clues to the next mystery down the line, which is why individual particles have the masses that they do.

4. The Standard Model

The Standard Model is the reigning theory of particle physics that describes the universe’s very small constituents.

Every particle predicted by the Standard Model has been discovered — except one: the Higgs boson.

3. The Electroweak Force

Discovering the Higgs boson would also help explain how two of the fundamental forces of the universe — the electromagnetic force that governs interactions between charged particles, and the weak force that’s responsible for radioactive decay — can be unified.

2. Supersymmetry

Another theory that would be affected by the discovery of the Higgs is called supersymmetry. This idea posits that every known particle has a “superpartner” particle with slightly different characteristics.

1. Validation of LHC

The Large Hadron Collider is the world’s largest particle accelerator. It was built for around $10 billion by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) to probe higher energies than had ever been reached on Earth. Finding the Higgs boson was touted as one of the machine’s biggest goals.

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bitchville:

Astronaut Don Pettit takes multiple 30-second exposure photos from a Space Station (240 miles up in space) and combines them to create these amazing super-long exposure pictures of star trails.

Super-long Exposure of Star Trails by Don Pettit