Monthly Archives: December 2009

A Yearning for Truth

Posted on December 29, 2009 by PlatoHagel

Beauty, Plato wrote, is not easy to define, but something that “slips through and evades us”. For this reason, many logic-oriented philosophical approaches tend to divorce and even oppose truth and beauty. “The question of truth”, wrote logician Gottlob Frege … Continue reading →

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A Correlation in Perception

Posted on December 28, 2009 by PlatoHagel

James Cameron’s AVATAR This post will indeed seem quite odd. But as I told Phil I wanted to explain a principal behind all the language I used here as if it would appear to another if we assume another perspective. … Continue reading →

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The Book: A Chapter Still to be Read

Posted on December 27, 2009 by PlatoHagel

While the LHC is hibernating until February next year, outreach efforts are not on hold. Here in Germany, there is a nice exhibition on tour, called “Die Weltmaschine”. This means literally the “world machine” – somewhat better than the “big … Continue reading →

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Mysterious Behavior of Neutrinos sent Straight through the Earth

Posted on December 24, 2009 by PlatoHagel

This rendering depicts the future NOvA detector facility on the property. Rendering by Holabird & Root. The NOνA experiment, a collaboration of over 180 scientists from some 28 institutions, will be the world’s most advanced neutrino experiment. NOvA physicists will … Continue reading →

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Sounding off on Economic Constraints in Experimentation

Posted on December 21, 2009 by PlatoHagel

I mean most understand that the economic spending “is the choice” as to whether an area of research will be continued to be funded or not, according to the direction that research council choose. Limited resources according to the times? … Continue reading →

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Cosmologically: Looking from the Inside Out

Posted on December 20, 2009 by PlatoHagel

“We all are of the citizens of the Sky” Camille Flammarion This picture is a copy of a “16 century woodcut” copied by Camille Flammarion in 1888.The Flammarion woodcut. Flammarion’s caption translates to “A medieval missionary tells that he has … Continue reading →

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What the "i" represents, is Natural?

Posted on December 18, 2009 by PlatoHagel

A Conformal Diagram of a Minkowski SpacetimeJohn D. Norton First, here is the conformal diagram of a Minkowski spacetime. This is the complete spacetime. It includes all of the infinity of space and the infinity of time through which things … Continue reading →

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So what about the Missing Energy?

Posted on December 17, 2009 by PlatoHagel

“Death, so called, is but older matter dressedIn some new form. And in a varied vest,From tenement to tenement though tossed,The soul is still the same, the figure only lost.” Poem on Pythagoras, Dryden’s Ovid. It is unfortunate to have … Continue reading →

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The State of Fear

Posted on December 16, 2009 by PlatoHagel

It is one of those things I guess,  as you get older you completely forget part of one’s thinking process that was started,  and never really went anywhere. Until that is, it is “awakened again” for introspection. So if you … Continue reading →

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Do You Think This Cloud Experiment is Important?

Posted on December 15, 2009 by PlatoHagel

“The aim of CLOUD is to understand whether or not cosmic rays can affect clouds and climate, by studying the microphysical interactions of cosmic rays with aerosols, cloud droplets and ice particles.” This is one of the possible mechanisms for … Continue reading →

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