Wednesday, September 19, 2007

space, time & bristlecone pines

tree (4050-year-old bristlecone pine): spatial location over three day period

me (49-year-old human): spatial location over three day period

elevation change: me (tree stayed pretty much the same)

time vectors: tree (green dot) & me (yellow dot)

result of being in the same place at the same time

2 comments:

haje said...

very elegant presentation of a remarkable coincidence

allen bukoff said...

this is the kind of stuff that makes my right brain (condescendingly) think that left brains (with some effort) can be cool, too.