Love our work? Help us continue our research by joining our giving circle. Even just $1/month helps us further our cause: https://quantumgravityresearch.givingcircles.io Behind the scenes of a group of physicists working on a unified first-principles quantum gravity theory. This is the first such post of many. We hope you like […]
http://www.twitter.com/tweetsauce http://instagram.com/electricpants Sources and sites to learn more below!!! dolly zoom effect: http://filmmakeriq.com/lessons/introduction-to-the-dolly-zoom/ visual angle: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angular_diameter https://xkcd.com/1276/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_angle http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/cosmos/A/Angular+Diameter great visual angle / angular diameter chart: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f8/Comparison_angular_diameter_solar_system.svg moon terminator illusion resources: rogers and olga naumenko (2014): http://www.perceptionweb.com/abstract.cgi?id=v1410275 moon tile illusion [PDF]: http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~amyers/MoonPaper20June.pdf http://www.upenn.edu/emeritus/essays/MyersMoon.html http://www.astropix.com/HTML/L_STORY/MOONILL.HTM http://cosmoquest.org/forum/showthread.php?39035-Why-does-the-moon-s-terminator-not-appear-orthogonal-to-the-direction-of-the-sun the (more famous) moon illusion: […]
Love our work? Help us continue our research by joining our giving circle. Even just $1/month helps us further our cause: https://quantumgravityresearch.givingcircles.io Klee talks about why it first occurred to him to use E8 for unification physics, and why even bother using an 8-dimensional object to describe a 3-dimensional universe. […]
Love our work? Help us continue our research by joining our giving circle. Even just $1/month helps us further our cause: https://quantumgravityresearch.givingcircles.io Here’s a fun little video we made of the 20-Group flying around New York City. The 20-Group is a fundamental object in the quasicrystalline spin network (QSN), the […]
Love our work? Help us continue our research by joining our giving circle. Even just $1/month helps us further our cause: https://quantumgravityresearch.givingcircles.io QGR geometer and mathematician Dugan presents a brief overview of two methods for generating quasicrystals: the multigrid method and the cut-and-project method. Each construction method has a related […]
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