Monthly Archives: December 2012

Ifyou sprinkle fine sand uniformly over a drumhead and then make itvibrate, the grains of sand will collect in characteristic spots andfigures, called Chladni patterns. These patterns reveal muchinformationabout the size and the shape of the drum and the elasticity … Continue reading →

The full set of movies is at: http://nengo.ca/build-a-brain/spaunvideos/ See: The Nengo Neural Simulator Chris Eliasmith

Physicists would dearly love to study this foam but there’s a problem. Spacetime only becomes foam-like on the tiniest scale, at so-called Planck lengths of 10^-35 metres or so. See: How to Measure Quantum Foam With a Tabletop Experiment An … Continue reading →

This image shows galaxy clusters Abell 399, lower center, and Abell 401 connected by a bridge of hot gas (ESA Planck Collaboration / STScI Digitized Sky Survey)  Planck’s primary task is to capture the most ancient light of the cosmos. … Continue reading →

  If you sprinkle fine sand uniformly over a drumhead and then make it vibrate, the grains of sand will collect in characteristic spots and figures, called Chladni patterns. These patterns reveal much information about the size and the shape … Continue reading →

The full set of movies is at: http://nengo.ca/build-a-brain/spaunvideos/ See: The Nengo Neural Simulator Chris Eliasmith Dialogos of Eide