Math/Physics Tattoo Idea Request - Warren

[Chris Hillman]

Some really bad ideas

Hmmm, good idea. A decorative, prettied-up Mobius strip might look quite good.

The logo of my alma mater (Mathematics, University of Washington) used to be a banana slug crawling over an "Escherized" Moebius strip. I can't say I care much for the current logo either.

How about the Coxeter-Dynkin diagram for E_8? The Petersen graph? The digraph illustrating the Golden-Mean shift? An illustration of a Moebius transformation (elliptic, parabolic, or hyperbolic according to taste)? (See Needham, Visual Complex Analysis.) Or Indra's pearls?

Had you not imposed such space requirements, I'd suggest a portion of the Penrose rhombic tiling, or a small Ramanujan graph. And had you an infinite amount of multidimensional-dimensional skin, I'd suggest the Leech lattice. Or the Erdos-Rado graph Even better, an example of the most important theorem in mathematics, the Szemeredi lemma.

I think anything not very abstract will look terrible. (Actually, I think any tatoo will look terrible--- but perhaps I should have kept that to myself?)

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Actually, I think any tatoo will look terrible

yep.

 

[Chris Hillman]

Emboldened, a further suggestion

yep.

Maybe someone should start a thread, "What are the Visual Icons of Mathematics?" (In another post, I mentioned one of the "Icons of Chaotic Dynamics".)

 

[Gale]

I like math jeans. That's clever.

I've always wanted a math tatoo. I think I'm going to gussy up euler's equation where theta= pi. Or I've considered some representation of the golden ratio like maybe da vinci's vitruvian man.

I used to joke with my mum that I'd tattoo my inner thigh. Then it would be a sort of test for future boyfriends... strictly pass/fail of course.

 

[devil-fire]

Ever since Chroot started this thread, I seriously started thinking about getting a tattoo. It's been in the back of my mind for quite some time now but never thought of anything that I know I wouldn't grow tired of or regret later on. That is, till a couple of ideas popped into my head.

The first, my families coat of arms which I will get eventually, but there's one in particular that really started to pull at me. I've thought about getting this one on either my left or right shoulder blade region at approximately eight or nine inches in diameter... size mainly depending what it takes to make the symbols and Latin legible.

So, what are you' think? Too much?

that much fine detail would be really tough to put in a tattoo. to make it look readable, you would need that over almost your whole back

 

[StatusX]

Get a tattoo of a loop that isn't null-homotopic (taking the topology of the skin to be a torus, including the digestive track).

 

[mathwonk]

you have to be kidding. how about a tattoo of kuranishi?

 

[Moonbear]

The logo of my alma mater (Mathematics, University of Washington) used to be a banana slug crawling over an "Escherized" Moebius strip. I can't say I care much for the current logo either.

Go slugs! Sorry, I just didn't know that was the logo there, and can't stop laughing at the idea of a slug as a mascot, and worse, a slug moving in an endless loop going nowhere.

 

[Chris Hillman]

Go slugs! Sorry, I just didn't know that was the logo there, and can't stop laughing at the idea of a slug as a mascot, and worse, a slug moving in an endless loop going nowhere.

Now I wish I'd kept a copy of that logo!

This might be a "don't ask unless you really want to know" kinda thing, but what's the most memorable tatoo you've spotted on the operating table?

 

[Gravitino]

What about placing WMAP as a tattoo? You could also use a trap of neutron star near black hole. Or a funny picture that quarks want to escape from each other, but strong force does not allow it (confinement). One can find many ideas of this type.

 

[Poop-Loops]

My friend is a chemistry major and has a bunch of chemical formulas (like the ones with the lines connecting the element letters together) for the neuroreceptors for pain and pleasure on his arms.

 

[Holocene]

I once toyed with the idea of getting the "Pioneer Plaque" tattooed on my back.

Well, as it turned out, there were quite a few pics on the internet of people who had done just that. And here I thought I had an original idea...

 

[pharmer]

I have a tattoo on each shoulder's deltoid. I designed them myself using MathCad and Photoshop. The right shoulder has a 3D perspective of a gaussian photon, four and a half wavelengths, the lobes a solid black for the magnetic field, a deep red for the electric field. I had wanted thin line vectors in each lobe, but the tattoo artist refused to attempt it, saying that they would badly blend together in a few years. It's seven inches across (I have big shoulders) but could easily reduce to three. The left shoulder is a 3D perspective of the Periodic Table with a diamondback snake wrapped around it in the shape of the infinity symbol. The snake's eye has h-bar in it. It is about eight inches wide.

It seems to me the best tattoos are relatively simple (it's easy to put in too many details), even if it's still sophisticated. I may have put a bit too much detail into the Planck Snake, but the photon is perfect. I am happy with both. Instead of wearing my religion on my sleeve (I don't have one), I wear my profession on my shoulders!

Take your time designing your unique tattoo. You'll be stuck with it.

 

[fourier jr]

i can't believe nobody mentioned euler's equation. maybe it isn't as cool as i think it is

 

[Cyrus]

 

[junglebeast]

Hahaha...what a travesty!

 

[junglebeast]

http://sol.sci.uop.edu/~jfalward/elementaryparticles/redbluegreenequalswhite.JPG

quarks in a proton or neutron

http://sol.sci.uop.edu/~jfalward/elementaryparticles/pairproductioncloudchamberphoto.jpg
gamma-ray photon disappears and in its place
appear an electron and its antiparticle, the positron,
a particle of equal mass but opposite charge

1974 discovery photograph of a possible charmed baryon, now identified as the Σc++

http://www.slic2.wsu.edu:82/hurlbert/micro101/images/TransferRNA.gif

 

[pharmer]

Here are my tats:

 

[Oscar Wilde]

anything of a fractal nature would look very cool

 

[ExactlySolved]

\delta S = 0

 

[fourier jr]

how about http://gizmodo.com/5270864/does-this-physics-tattoo-make-this-man-the-biggest-nerd-on-earth-or-hottest-geek-alive" ?

 

[robphy]

Is there a minus-sign missing in the second line?

 

[bassplayer142]

What about planets revolving around the sun or something with astronomy? Also, there is a book out there that the author takes mathematical proofs and makes a picture out of it. I have never seen they but there could be some great ideas in there!

edit
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0883857006/?tag=pfamazon01-20

 

[Kernacktur]

Here's what I have in terms of physics tattoos.

 

[dcha]

Sorry to bump an old thread. I really want to get something like these bubble chamber photos.

[PLAIN]http://www.particlephysics.ac.uk/news/picture-of-the-week/picture-archive/tracks-in-a-hydrogen-bubble-chamber/000329_med.jpg


This one is even more beautiful, but I'm not sure how it would be done.
[PLAIN]http://academic.evergreen.edu/curricular/matterandmotion/bubble-chamber2.jpeg

Please let me know what you think. :)

 

[QuarkCharmer]

Since I learned what they are, I have noticed a TON of people with Bubble chamber tattoos. Where I live it's a huge fad, even among those not interested in physics. It's more of a thing that has become prevelant since CERN and the LHC became internet phenomenons.

I kind of like the idea of a Feynman diagram tattoo myself, though something a little more complex than the electromagnetic interaction ones you always see.

 

[dcha]

Where do you live? When you say a "ton", how many are we talking? Enough for it to be unoriginal or played out? I haven't ever met anyone that knows what I'm talking about when I describe it, let alone have a tattoo of one so I might be okay in my area.

 

[Kurdt]

How about just a spiderman tattoo.

[PLAIN]http://offbeatink.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/cool-spiderman-tattoo.jpg

 

[The legend]

How about just a spiderman tattoo.

[PLAIN]http://offbeatink.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/cool-spiderman-tattoo.jpg[/QUOTE]
spiderman uses physics of tension in string and equilibrium too... so it should do..

 

[radou]

The only tattoos worth something are washed-out tattoos of mermaids and anchors. That's for real men.