Quantum Celebration [Tattoo]

Paul writes: “I’m finishing up my last year as an undergraduate in Chemical Physics. After paging through your collection of science tattoos I thought it would be cool to get one myself — both celebrating (soon) getting my degree and my love of science. My favorite thing from my undergrad classes has been learning about quantum mechanics. I’m still amazed by its mystery and its particular odd logic, how different the sub-atomic world is from our ‘classical’ universe.”
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January 19th, 2009 1:30 PM by Carl Zimmer in Science Tattoo Emporium | 2 comments | RSS feed | Trackback >

2 Responses to “Quantum Celebration [Tattoo]”

1. Martin g Says:
January 20th, 2009 at 8:00 am

Unless I’ve missed it, you don’t seem to have covered the science ‘ of ‘ tattoos.

A study was published back in 2006 shedding light on the subject.

see :

Tattooing: An expression of uniqueness in the appearance domain

link via here :

http://www.reallymagazine.com/month_archive_39.htm#10JAN07L
2. Michael Nielsen » Biweekly links for 02/06/2009 Says:
February 6th, 2009 at 6:54 am

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