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richard barrett
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« Reply #90 on: 17:42:06, 16-02-2007 »
One of my favourite gravestones is that of Alfred Schnittke: http://www.therestisnoise.com/2004/09/at_the_grave_of.html
The object on my postage stamp isn't a physical object, by the way.
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« Reply #91 on: 18:53:49, 16-02-2007 »
Quote from: richard barrett on 14:44:12, 16-02-2007
It certainly isn't an easy one for me, Bryn. As for mine, George, your mention of Gabo was very astute indeed - but, I'm sorry to say, incorrect. It isn't a sculpture.

Well it's gone now, to be replaced by a hand other than mine. Can it really by just a chance happening?

Anyway, what was there before was a Volvox. That's why I thought someone like you would get it straght away, Richard. Actually, at first I thought your pollen grain might have been something of the sort until suddenly something clicked in my memory of boring days spent preparing material for the SEM and looking forward to the SO rehearsal in the evening.
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« Reply #92 on: 18:56:26, 16-02-2007 »
By the way, I think I might copy this Mona Adolph before replacing it with a link so something or other on the internet. I made the mistake of editing the Volvox picture.
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richard barrett
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« Reply #93 on: 19:03:07, 16-02-2007 »
Volvox, eh. I might well have got that if it hadn't been, well, yellow.
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« Reply #94 on: 19:12:17, 16-02-2007 »
Ah, I didn't edit the colours on the Volvox pic. That's how I found it.

This one's too easy as my profile is available,so the source can be checked. By the way, how do you hide your profile?

Oh and it's a planktonic foraminifera Globogerinoides fistulosus.
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« Reply #95 on: 19:18:50, 16-02-2007 »
By the way, Richard, that's not a lampshade, is it?
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richard barrett
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« Reply #96 on: 19:33:24, 16-02-2007 »
No, as I said it isn't a physical object.
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« Reply #97 on: 20:01:08, 16-02-2007 »
At the severe risk of having points taken off my astuteness rating, anything to do with string theory, m-branes and p-branes and all that? 
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richard barrett
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« Reply #98 on: 20:40:23, 16-02-2007 »
George, your astuteness never ceases to amaze me, and you get today's Nobel prize: it is indeed a three-dimensional projection of a Calabi-Yau manifold, a mathematical object which string theorists conjecture could be the form of the "hidden dimensions" which their theory predicts but are too small to be detectable. Or at least they used to a few years ago.

I shall have to think of something obscure next time.
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« Reply #99 on: 21:05:46, 16-02-2007 »
Blimey!!! Shocked  I had a sort of feeling it might be something like that but it really was largely a guess. I'm fairly sure I hadn't seen that particular image before but it was the way it was folding in on itself in complex ways that set me off in that direction. I'm now slightly frightened by my own astuteness levels. The odd thing is it did actually occur to me that it 'looked like' a three-dimensional representation of something of higher dimensions - though there shouldn't really be anything for that to 'look like' <headexplodingemoticon>

I'm definitely going to stop while I'm winning so I may sit the next few out and play with my Nobel prize Cool
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« Reply #100 on: 21:10:21, 16-02-2007 »
http://images.google.co.uk/images?hl=en&q=cym.jpeg&gbv=2 Wink
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« Reply #101 on: 21:48:12, 16-02-2007 »
O.k., how about this one, while it lasts?
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« Reply #102 on: 22:57:12, 16-02-2007 »
Whatever it is it looks very sinister...

A faceless cowled figure...

That's what doing Ian's Musical Connections is doing to my brain, I'm afraid....
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« Reply #103 on: 23:07:04, 16-02-2007 »
That's a Moog Etherwave Pro theremin, Richard $1294

(or theromone as per my accidental Freudian spoonerism yesterday !! Roll Eyes   )

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/mbradio3/F2620064?thread=3892061
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richard barrett
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« Reply #104 on: 23:10:48, 16-02-2007 »
Indeed, Flay. Well spotted.
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