Vincent van Gogh accidentally solved a complex physics problem while inside an asylum.
In 2004, scientists analyzed The Starry Night, they found something magical.
His swirling brushstrokes perfectly match Kolmogorov’s formula for fluid turbulence. This formula describes how energy flows through the universe. Physicists of his time could not prove it, Van Gogh did it with paint.
Through pure intuition during severe psychosis, Van Gogh’s brush captured the universe's invisible, chaotic geometry.
30,000 hours of footage, equivalent to 3 years and 7 months, were filmed to capture the blooming of 77 types of flowers, and the result is spectacular.
This is absolutely wild.
What you’re watching is a Gigantic Jet, one of the rarest and most powerful electrical phenomena in Earth’s atmosphere.
It’s a massive upward lightning bolt that shoots from the top of a thunderstorm all the way up into the ionosphere, reaching heights of up to 90 kilometers.
This specific event was captured on July 20, 2024 from the International Space Station by NASA astronaut Jeanette Epps during the Thor-Davis experiment, a European Space Agency project studying upper-atmospheric lightning.
The video has been slowed down and stabilised by Simeon Schmauß so you can properly see the bright column erupting with that glowing head at the top.
Gigantic Jets are much rarer and far more energetic than red sprites. These Transient Luminous Events are still not fully understood, which makes real footage like this from space even more special.
Credit: @esa@NASA - J. Epps / Processing: Simeon Schmauß
A gentle giant cruising right by the shoreline. 🌊 It’s hard to comprehend the pure scale of a blue whale until you see it juxtaposed against the rocks like this. Nature at its most majestic.
Mathematics, physics, chaos. Apparent unpredictability. Life explained.
The "Lorenz Attractor." Little blue butterflies, circulating forever.
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