Exploring micro worlds — DOP

Exploring
micro worlds

November 5 2013

After so much exploring the inner worlds and energetic realms, back to matter. Only to find what — Outlandish shapes and structures all around. This little world reveals the ordering structures inherent in the stream of life. Being enclosed in this world of man-made structures we easily forget that life itself builds in a different way. Let’s make ourselves familiar with it.

If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.
John von Neumann quote — taken from but does it float

I especially wanna introduce you to the first picture. It explicitly shows a colony of microscopic nudists having an orgy on the surface of an integrated circuit (clearly on drugs). Others say it’s just the polyimide surface itself after being exposed to etching by reactive ions. Decide for yourself.

Most of the other pictures show diatoms. To be continued …

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Automatic Earth

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The Return

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Keep it surreal

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The Impossible Figure

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