Monthly Archives: September 2006

Are Strangelets Natural?

Posted on September 30, 2006 by PlatoHagel

Thus RHIC is in a certain sense a string theory testing machine, analyzing the formation and decay of dual black holes, and giving information about the black hole interior. It is important that you look at the date of this … Continue reading →

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Historical Approach of the Sand Reckoner

Posted on September 29, 2006 by PlatoHagel

I should pave the way for how the thoughts that are unfolding this morning. But nothing afflicted Marcellus so much as the death of Archimedes, who was then, as fate would have it, intent upon working out some problem by … Continue reading →

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Science People Working the Trades?

Posted on September 29, 2006 by PlatoHagel

Now how often have we seen the ability of good science people brains tested with actually “construction techniques” in the everyday world? Be it, some calculation on how much concrete is to be supplied in the driveway to drain the … Continue reading →

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SOLAR B and Van Ellen Belts

Posted on September 28, 2006 by PlatoHagel

SCIENCE GOALS OF SOLAR-B To determine the mechanisms responsible for heating the corona in active regions and the quiet Sun. There are of course reasons why you want to keep these perspectives together. While I have been extolling the virtues … Continue reading →

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Cosmic Rays in Atlas

Posted on September 28, 2006 by PlatoHagel

Like Piglet describing the Heffalump in Winnie the Pooh by AA Milne, one knows this started out in some fantastical world. More then, the “inkblot” as a comparison leads too/from, a fictional story, and became the fantasy of Alice that … Continue reading →

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Gravitational Radiation

Posted on September 27, 2006 by PlatoHagel

How dry this article in comparison to what we can witness in the cosmo? One gets this sense of “curvature implied” that the events connected at locations in the universe could have been felt in other locations? What connects them? … Continue reading →

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Gravity-Don’t Let it Get You Down

Posted on September 27, 2006 by PlatoHagel

If a inkblot appears on your desk, would you think it appeared in the shape it did to convince you, that what you are “seeing is real?” To you, it may look like someone trying in their attempts to convince … Continue reading →

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Why do physicists want to study particles?

Posted on September 26, 2006 by PlatoHagel

A few “cosmic rays” pass through our body every second of every day, regardless of where we are. They consist of particles created when high energy atomic nuclei (mainly protons) coming from outer space collide with the atoms at the … Continue reading →

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A Distorted Lense?

Posted on September 25, 2006 by PlatoHagel

Gravity dominates the large-scale structure of the universe, but only by default, so to speak. Matter arranges itself to cancel electromagnetism, and the strong and weak forces are intrinsically short range. At a more fundamental level, gravity is extravagantly feeble. … Continue reading →

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Hydrogen, and the Law of Octaves

Posted on September 23, 2006 by PlatoHagel

<a href="http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/vilenkin06/vilenkin06_index.html&quot; target=_BLank title="The Edge-THE PRINCIPLE OF MEDIOCRITY [9.15.06]By Alexander Vilenkin”> Alex Vilenkin – Many Worlds in One article by Mark of Cosmic Variance drew my interest again after reading with a new perspective gained from understandng some implications about … Continue reading →

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