Monthly Archives: August 2011

Weber Bars Ring True?

Posted on August 29, 2011 by PlatoHagel

Gravitational Radiation Gravitational waves have a polarization pattern that causes objects to expand in one direction, while contracting in the perpendicular direction. That is, they have spin two. This is because gravity waves are fluctuations in the tensorial metric of … Continue reading →

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The Science of Consciousness: Consciousness as a Phase Shift?

Posted on August 20, 2011 by PlatoHagel

Ya okay…all these opinions….it still begs the question of “What makes you you?“ Cells are just the building blocks of our body, like the bricks of a house, but who is the architect, who coordinates the building of this house. … Continue reading →

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Freedom Box

Posted on August 20, 2011 by PlatoHagel

FreedomBox v Facebook – Eben Moglen from Nick B-T on Vimeo.  *** Freedom Box Project Inspired by Eben Moglen’s vision of a small, cheap and simple computer that serves freedom in the home. We are building a Debian based platform … Continue reading →

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Another Kind of Sideways

Posted on August 16, 2011 by PlatoHagel

 I wanted to expand on where the title,”Another Kind of Sideways.” This blog posting  came from an interview with Clifford of Asymptotia by PBS. He had a posting of his own entitled Multiverse Musings about a Nova series on PBS … Continue reading →

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How Time Ages the Pyramids

Posted on August 13, 2011 by PlatoHagel

Chanticleer – A Pleasure Garden Believing that something must be true about the world because you can’t imagine otherwise is, five hundred years into the Age of Science, not a recommended strategy for acquiring reliable knowledge. It goes back to … Continue reading →

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David Deutsch: A new way to explain explanation

Posted on August 12, 2011 by PlatoHagel

When you are told that carrots have human rights because they share half our genes — but not how gene percentages confer rights — wizard. When someone announces that the nature-nurture debate has been settled because there is evidence that … Continue reading →

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The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer Experiment )02

Posted on August 11, 2011 by PlatoHagel

Credit: NASA/JSC, NASA During the 14-day mission, Endeavour delivered the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) and spare parts including two S-band communications antennas, a high-pressure gas tank and additional spare parts for Dextre. This was the 36th shuttle mission to the … Continue reading →

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Subcarrier-Index Modulation OFDM

Posted on August 7, 2011 by PlatoHagel

Do you know that we have 1.4 million cellular radio masts deployed worldwide? And these are base stations. And we also have more than five billion of these devices here. These are cellular mobile phones. And with these mobile phones, … Continue reading →

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