Prime Numbers – Visual Patterns ?

Prime Numbers – Visual Patterns ?

Will these pictures give you some idea of what their secret is ? Maybe there is no secret ! The Ulam spiral is a way of visualizing the distribution of prime numbers (black dots in the image and blue in the movie below). This pattern is one the great unsolved...
The Taming of The Finest Bubbles

The Taming of The Finest Bubbles

An initial burst of effervescence occurs when the Champagne contacts the dry glass on pouring. These bubbles form on imperfections in the glass that facilitate nucleation or, to a lesser extent, on cellulose fibres left over from the wiping/drying process as shown...

Zooming the Zone

We all know that the best way to get something done is to write down a list of what to do. Well, here for you need of course some idea of what it is you are doing and that usually implies a little of analysing or broadly spoken “cutting into pieces”. In...