Inverse-Square Law Tattoo



Atlanta-based photographer Erik Dixon got a tattoo illustrating the inverse square law, which "...is the physics equation for the fall off rate of light radiating from a source point. Something I use every time I shoot. This also applies to gravity and sound."

If you were to get an intellectual tattoo, what would it be?

Link | Photo: Erik Dixon/Geeky Tattoos

I had a sketch up of the Saturn IV in cross-section that I'd planned to have tattooed up my left arm from early on in highschool up until I was about 21 and grew out of the idea of tattoos.
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Oh man. Definitely Euler's identity.

e^i? + 1 = 0

Not that I've ever had the chance to use it per se, but one day I hope to.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euler%27s_identity
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I have always been partial to the interface between philosophy and science. Heisenberg's uncertainty principle. Spooky Action at a Distance. Maxwell's closed loops.

(Yes, I tried to post a copy of the equations, but such things appear to be beyond the interaction between this site and this poster.)
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DNA helices are getting a little too common for my tastes these days, but they are a beautiful wrap-around tattoo for the arm/leg. I would love to get either a modern cladogram (they're cool and circular now, though I wouldn't be able to get ALL the branches), or a tree of life, with DNA at its roots
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Actually, I guess if you're talking about ANYTHING intellectual, I already have a triskele from Newgrange on my wrist. But as I'm a scientist and not an anthropologist, it's more to show pride in my heritage than an intellectual thing.
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My husband has a huge tattoo on his chest with a banner with the fundamental theory of calculus running through a serpinski's triangle with a fractal as the background.
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The accounting equation "A = L+SE"
Assets equals libalites plus shareholders equity. For a true accountant it is beautiful in its symplicity, but can be used to explain 95% of all accounting entries.
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I've been juggling with the idea of a tattoo with the hymn from the Jupiter Suite from Holst's 'The Planets'. Not sure if that's intellectual but it's pretty nerdy :D
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Intellectual tattoo....

Among several ohers, I also have a big totally continuous triskele widely overlapping one of my shoulderblades. I'd like to someday somewhere add a möbius-strip- possibly around my upper arm, combined with an infinite-sign (the lemniscate) and done in some celtic style.

...But I'm not really sure I would see my tattoos as "intellectual"...
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