# Tattoo featuring quantum physics

1. May 8, 2013

### BslBryan

Hello community. This is my first post and thread in this forum.

I've been working with modeling circumbinary exoplanets lately and I'd like to commemorate the implications with a tattoo. I'm young and dumb - it's a perfect time to get a tattoo.

Instead of relying on my work with CBPs and getting something like a stellar luminosity equation, I'd prefer to get something that relates to the building blocks of the universe in entirety.

I've thought about the standard model, but that might change in my lifetime with a TOE. I don't want the theory of relativity. All I know is that I want a physics tattoo - either an equation with remarkable implications but preferably something visual (maybe with an equation) and I figured you guys would be the ones to ask.

No idea is a bad idea, and you're free to make a case for anything, even things like relativity where I've already stated I'd rather not have.

Thanks, guys. Let's hear some cool ideas.

2. May 8, 2013

### Integral

Staff Emeritus
$$e^{i \pi} -1 = 0$$

Not exactly physics but a neat expression in any case.

3. May 8, 2013

### phosgene

Stephen Hawking on lower back.

4. May 8, 2013

### BslBryan

It is neat, and quite beautiful, but I don't really understand the implications - I can't quite process imaginary numbers or the significance of these seemingly unrelated values coming out to 0.

5. May 8, 2013

### WannabeNewton

The equations of motion for the Klein-Gordon field: $\partial^{a}\partial_{a}\varphi - m^{2}\varphi = 0$

6. May 8, 2013

### AnTiFreeze3

The complexity of this consequent equation may be off-putting to some, so I will include a brief motivation so that everyone here, from all levels of physics, can understand it:

Say we have a particle, be it a car, person, or ball. In order to determine both the speed and direction of this particle, we find the ${\frac{\Delta x}{\Delta t}}$, with $\Delta x$ denoting the overall change in position of the particle from its starting position, and $\Delta t$ denoting the change in time. Due to the displacement ($\Delta x$) being a vector, the resulting magnitude of this equation also results in a direction. Denoting this resulting value and direction will be the symbol $\mathbf v$, and it shall henceforth be referred to as velocity.

Thus, we can conclude that the velocity of a particle, $\mathbf v$, is related to the object's displacement, and the time of its displacement, in the following equation: $$\mathbf v={\frac{\Delta x}{\Delta t}}.$$

The results of this conclusion are astoundingly complex, and spread throughout the entirety of physics, making its presence known to all who dare to learn and understand it in a truly deep level. I find that this would be your best choice for a tattoo.

7. May 8, 2013

### BslBryan

Nice idea. Any particular reason you suggested that over Schrodinger's Equation?

8. May 8, 2013

### WannabeNewton

The latter is quite cliched is it not ? You could also try the Dirac equation for the Dirac spinor if you get bored!

9. May 8, 2013

### DiracPool

Forget the Schrodinger equation. Use the Dirac equation sandwiched between 2 p-obitals! Cool.

10. May 8, 2013

### Office_Shredder

Staff Emeritus
Is this some sort of trolling attempt? :tongue:

11. May 8, 2013

### BslBryan

I eat antimatter for breakfast. Cool idea!

12. May 8, 2013

### SteamKing

Staff Emeritus
You would be better off learning something, say a trade or a skill, rather than running around like a two-legged billboard.

13. May 8, 2013

### BslBryan

Maybe you could learn something about running around like a two-legged billboard. Let's keep this to suggestions for tattoos.

14. May 8, 2013

### AnTiFreeze3

You would be better off learning something, say a trade or a skill, rather than wasting away time replying to random people on the internet about your discomforts of how they conduct themselves....

Oh wait, this could go on forever.

15. May 8, 2013

### lisab

Staff Emeritus

16. May 8, 2013

### chgol5270

Try some of the images for particle collisions

17. May 9, 2013

### Trollegionaire

Tattoo featuring quantum physics.

18. May 9, 2013

### Staff: Mentor

19. May 9, 2013

### dlgoff

20. May 9, 2013

### Pseudo Epsilon

Heisenbergs uncertainty principle is a VERY good idea. Its simple, looks cool and illustrates rather poeticaly how we can never know everything.

21. May 9, 2013

### Danger

I always find Hertzsprung-Russell diagrams, from the simple black ink type to the multicoloured variety, to be captivating.

(Yeah, I know that it's not quantum physics, but you did mention a lot about stars in your introduction.)

22. May 9, 2013

### Integral

Staff Emeritus
If don't understand the implcations of that relationship how can you understand any equation in advanced Physics???

Perhaps you need:

F=ma

23. May 9, 2013

### Curious3141

That should be:

$$e^{i \pi} +1 = 0$$ It's a good thing he didn't go out and get a tattoo with a typo.

24. May 9, 2013