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Fruit Lowdown Musical evaluation Optical illusions Light/colour trivia Science quessies |
Super Magnet Lucid dream journal Distance perception quiz Super hard maths quiz |
How much is a pineapple worth? Is a strawberry really better than a cherry?
What does that spikey fruit at the supermarket actually taste like - does it taste any good? Where does the humble apple fit into all this?
Every fruit analysed and rated according to how weird they taste and how /good/ they taste.
Musical & graphical evaluation
What actually makes a piece of music or a picture..... good? It's way too complex to even begin to answer this question, but what my article addresses is the important point that music can be rated and given a defintive aesthetic score /outside/ of human opinion. Even though the majority of the optical illusions here are already popular, I have enhanced many with the use of animation. Also, a few of the optical illusions on display I've actually made myself :)
Dynamic Optical Illusions
Welcome to 'SuperMagnet' - one of my longest running projects. What happens when a thousand-atom 'comet' collides into a giant ball of 4000 'atoms'?The best way of describing what SuperMagnet does is to say that it manipulates an array of 'atoms' to create all sorts of effects.
For example you could have a lovely stretchy bridge made up of, say, 20 atoms, with a giant ball of mini-magnets or 1 big magnet jumping on it. Or you could simulate a pipe system with water (hundreds of tiny magnets) running through it - all while being affected by gravity! Or maybe you could run a small scale solar system with the planets orbiting the sun (you could track any of the planets). Even a snooker table with real-world physics and friction. The possibilities really are endless. You are, in effect, creating a world of atoms all with their own individual properties.Anyway, pictures (and especially anims!) describe far more than words could ever do, so take a look at these...
The world's most unanswered science quessies
Hi and welcome to the most interesting list of un-answered scientific questions around! Whether you're a nuclear scientist or someone who's just curious about science, you'll no doubt find stuff of interest here.What happens when two mirrors face each other?
What happens to water if you compress it more and more and more... (It can't just disappear)?
What's the temperature of a candle flame?
What on earth would liquid diamond or gold taste like if it was cool enough to drink?
Can liquid diamond be made and if so, what temperature would be needed?
All of these (and lots more) are answered (or will be hopefully in the future). See if you could help too!
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A graphically illustrated guide to various oddities about colour and light. You'll find various amusing contradictions about the perception of colour. Have you ever wondered how many pictures (or movies!) you could ever ever ever see? Did you know that blue and yellow actually makes grey/white (well, it's true!). Also, the shocking news - "Is your monitor displaying a fake green?". You'll not only find it probably is, but have a chance to see what /real/ green looks like. All this and lots more! What are you waiting for? |
Lucidity is a state in dreams where you are fully conscious and are aware that what you are experiencing /is/ a dream. Maybe once or twice throughout your life-time, you've already had a
lucid dream. According to its level of lucidity, this can be a wonderful experience allowing you (for example) to fly above an amazing star-lit city dreamscape or whatever. The limit is your imagination.There are actual techniques to improve the frequency of these lucid dreams and once an expert, you can have as many as 4 lucid dreams a night. Full scientific research has been carried out on the subject and is continuing to expand. There's lots more to say about Lucidity, so if you're interested in reading further, visit: http://www.lucidity.com/LucidDreamingFAQ2.html
Right, grab for the nearest piece of scrap paper and pen; here's a unique quiz for you to try out. Each mini-test (there are eight in all) comprise of a route you have to choose
to find the quickest way to the finish point.Some require logical/lateral thinking, where others require pure guesswork (remember those jars filled with hundreds of marbles and you had to guess how many there were?). Anyway, good luck and no cheating by calculating the distances and adding them up methodically. Only guesswork and lateral thinking are allowed.
Mr Know-it-all has has carefully planned for us this section dedicated to bringing you the world's hardest (but also easy to understand) math/logic questions.
The questions are such that even a ten year old could understand them, but it would take more than a nuclear scientist to solve them! The idea is not to solve them, but to be confident in the knowledge that no-one else could solve them (unless given masses of time and a super computer - and probably not even then either) - thus being blissfully ignorant that anyone has even bothered to try and work them out at all. Also, this gives Mr Know-it-all a huge ego boost as Mr Know-it-all and only Mr Know-it-all has the answers.