Today, five years ago at 11:15 sharp, I successfully defended my PhD thesis. I’m not usually one to celebrate an anniversary. But because this one has taken me by surprise—by how much time has flown—I thought it’d be nice to mark the occassion. I've made a mostly visual summary of my thesis to celebrate:

https://kedara.eu/colloidal-systems/

#Colloids #SoftMatter #Physics #PhD #BrownianMotion #BlogPost

Some new instrument coming up in @mercury

Many types of nooooiissseess:

white, pink, brownian, lofi, dust and crackle noise.

Programmed in a custom audioworkletnode.

A first draft is available for testing on: https://noise-synth.mercury-playground.pages.dev/#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%3D%3D

#mercurylivecoding #webaudio #audioworkletnode #noise #white #pink #brownianmotion #lofi #dust #crackle

Bienvenue à monsieur Minuit, mon nouveau chat noir

Well, that's about all the French I know...

https://chasingdings.com/2024/07/17/bienvenue-a-monsieur-minuit-mon-nouveau-chat-noir/

#Cats #RealLife #BrownianMotion #houseflies #PartialPressure

Pretty annoyed that the New York Times Spelling Bee game can't recognize the word Brownian as in Brownian motion. If I can retain that much from a chem class I took decades ago they can include it in a list of recognized words.

#games #spelling #NYT #NYTimes #BrownianMotion #chemistry

In 1827, botanist Robert Brown observed an odd jittery motion of particles as he watched grains of pollen floating in water under his microscope. He saw the random motion also with inorganic — which is to say definitely Not Alive — particles as well. But it was Einstein nearly 80 years later who figured out how to connect this observable motion to atoms. Einstein realized Brown’s particles were being constantly jostled by atomic collisions, and, with a little work, we could use those moving particles to determine Avogadro’s number. Steve Mould walks you through the whole story in this video. (Video and image credit: S. Mould)

https://fyfluiddynamics.com/2024/05/how-we-got-atoms-from-brownian-motion/

#biology #brownianMotion #diffusion #fluidDynamics #molecularDiffusion #physics #science