Sister blog of Physicists of the Caribbean. Shorter, more focused posts specialising in astronomy and data visualisation.

Tuesday, 2 December 2014

Hydrogen Storm over Giza


Only visible to those with superhetrodyne receivers for eyes. Different colours are at different frequencies; changing the center frequency gives animation.

I cheated a lot for this one - field of view for the sky is about twice what it should be. The all-sky data is so low resolution it's not really useable except for very wide-angle shots.

Weaponising dark matter

Stephen Baxter's Xeelee sequence revolves around a war between baryonic and non-baryonic life forms. One memorable sequence features a p...