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

3 comments:

haje said...

very elegant presentation of a remarkable coincidence

jn said...

thanks

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.