http://www.metafilter.com/tags/proton Posts tagged with 'proton' at MetaFilter. Wed, 16 Jul 2008 18:33:18 -0800 Wed, 16 Jul 2008 18:33:18 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/73371/Francium%2DGoes%2Dto%2DHollywood "<a href="http://www.periodicvideos.com/videos/introduction.htm">Welcome</a> to the "Periodic Table of Videos". Tables charting the chemical elements have been around since the 19th century - but <a href="http://www.periodicvideos.com/index.htm#">this modern version</a> will have a short video about each one."(YT <a href="http://www.youtube.com/periodicvideos">subscription</a>) <small>(via <a href="http://www.kottke.org/">kottke</a>)</small> tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.73371 Wed, 16 Jul 2008 18:33:18 -0800 atomicnumber chemistry electron mole neutron periodictable proton valence Kronos_to_Earth http://www.metafilter.com/54360/Eleven%2Dmiles%2Dof%2Dscrolling <a href="http://www.phrenopolis.com/perspective/atom/">"A Hydrogen Atom</a> is only about a ten millionth of a millimeter in diameter, but the proton in the middle is a hundred thousand times smaller, and the electron whizzing around the outside is a thousand times smaller than THAT. The rest of the atom is empty. I tried to picture it, and I couldn't. So I put together this page - and I still can't picture it." Awesome illustration on perspective and particles - *warning* very wide page, may be dangerous to your browser. Also, the <a href="http://www.rense.com/general72/size.htm">relative size of planets</a> (via the always interesting <a href="http://37signals.com/svn/archives2/on_a_grand_scale_information_design_and_science.php">37signals blog</a>.) tag:metafilter.com,2006:site.54360 Tue, 29 Aug 2006 20:52:44 -0800 atom blow_your_mind hydrogen perspective proton space rsanheim http://www.metafilter.com/50855/Baikonur <a href="http://todayspictures.slate.com/20060412/">Debris.</a> The <a href=http://todayspictures.slate.com/20060412/2.html>terminus</a> of ballistic <a href=http://todayspictures.slate.com/20060412/4.html>arches</a>. A photo-essay by <a href=http://www.jonasbendiksen.com/>Jonas Bendiksen</a> of a different kind of <a href=http://www.orbitaldebris.jsc.nasa.gov/photogallery/beehives.html#geo>space junk</a>: <a href=http://www.fas.org/spp/guide/russia/launch/proton.htm>Proton</a> rocket stages peppering the <a href=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/country_profiles/1298071.stm>Khazak</a> countryside discarded from <a href=http://www.russianspaceweb.com/baikonur.html>Baikonur</a> <a href=http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/baikonur_cosmodrome_000710.html>Cosmodrome </a>launches. tag:metafilter.com,2006:site.50855 Wed, 12 Apr 2006 13:08:44 -0800 Baikonur Cosmodrome essay photo Proton trinarian http://www.metafilter.com/17953/ <a href="http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/powersof10/index.html">Feeling small or feeling big?</a> 39 orders of magnitude that take you from the Milky Way to the proton in an oak leaf. tag:metafilter.com,2002:site.17953 Thu, 20 Jun 2002 10:10:50 -0800 flash galaxy insignificance leaf milkyway proton scaling size universe zoom Chief Typist