Graphite is an example of a crystal that crystallizes in the hexagonal crystal system.
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Graphite is an example of a crystal that crystallizes in the hexagonal crystal system.
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It will study the laws which govern exceptions and will explain the universe supplementary to this one; or, less ambitiously, it will describe a universe which one can see—must see perhaps—instead of the traditional one, for the laws discovered in the traditional universe are themselves correlated exceptions, even though frequent, or in any case accidental facts which, reduced to scarcely exceptional exceptions, don’t even have the advantage of singularity.
Definition: ‘Pataphysics is the science of imaginary solutions, which symbolically attributes the properties of objects, described by their virtuality, to their lineaents.
Shattuck, Roger. The Banquet Years. New York: Vintage Books, 1968. 241-242.
The impulse behind my insistent concern with the triumphant achievements of science is most elemental: I believe simply that an analysis of any of man’s achievements may reveal basic principles of methodology which, properly adjusted to the immediate conditions of other problems, may lead to similar triumphs. My argument is that if such a procedure is to have any value, then it must be based on a thorough observation of the whole method, and not a tangential development of some portion of it.
Maya Deren, “An Anagram of Ideas on Art, Form and Film”
Reprinted in Nichols, Bill, ed. Maya Deren and the American Avant-Garde. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2001
Astronomers at the University of Sheffield have managed to record for the first time the eerie musical harmonies produced by the magnetic field in the outer atmosphere of the sun.
They found that huge magnetic loops that have been observed coiling away from the outer layer of the sun’s atmosphere, known as coronal loops, vibrate like strings on a musical instrument.
In other cases they behave more like soundwaves as they travel through a wind instrument.
Gray, Richard. “Music of the sun recorded by scientists.” Telegraph.co.uk 19 June 2010.
“In general relativity, an event horizon is a boundary in spacetime, most often an area surrounding a black hole, beyond which events cannot affect an outside observer. Light emitted from beyond the horizon can never reach the observer, and any object that approaches the horizon from the observer’s side appears to slow down and never quite pass through the horizon, with its image becoming more and more redshifted as time elapses. The traveling object, however, experiences no strange effects and does, in fact, pass through the horizon in a finite amount of proper time. “