Monthly Archives: April 2013

Answers to Question-Interesting

Posted on April 30, 2013 by PlatoHagel

It seems the opportune time when thinking about positions people adopt, that one realizes that one is not in a class of their own, but do definitely belong to a group of people in regard to a response from a … Continue reading →

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Getting Perspective on Time

Posted on April 28, 2013 by PlatoHagel

Time has no independent existence apart from the order of events by which we measure it. — Albert Einstein Currently with the new book written by Lee Smolin about Time, to me, it is a fundamental question about what arises, … Continue reading →

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Origins of Life Question?

Posted on April 26, 2013 by PlatoHagel

Is it more astonishing that a God created all that exists in six days, or that the natural processes of the creative universe have yielded galaxies, chemistry, life, agency, meaning, value, consciousness, culture without a Creator. In my mind and … Continue reading →

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The Least Resistance as Possible?

Posted on April 25, 2013 by PlatoHagel

It is always of interest that communications over longer distances is made most capable and following an ole effect we see that where such tunneling allows such a process?  Kapusta points out that the condensation temperature would be well below … Continue reading →

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CERN NEWS : LHCb announces new results in matter-antimatter asymmetry

Posted on April 25, 2013 by PlatoHagel

Matter and antimatter are thought to have existed in equal amounts at the beginning of the universe, but today the universe appears to be composed essentially of matter. By studying subtle differences in the behaviour of particle and antiparticles, experiments … Continue reading →

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Entanglement on the Space Station

Posted on April 24, 2013 by PlatoHagel

See Also : Prof Anton Zeilinger speaks on quantum physics. at UCT Who’s Afraid Of The Quantum Ghost? Bell violation with entangled photons, free of the fair-sampling assumption Space Station May Test ‘Spooky’ Entanglement Over Largest Distance Yet Dialogos of … Continue reading →

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DarkSide-50

Posted on April 24, 2013 by PlatoHagel

Pictorial image showing, superimposed to an optical image, the spatial distributions of ordinary matter (pink) and the one assigned to dark matter (blue) estimated studying the merging of two clusters of galaxies (Bullet Cluster) The DarkSide collaboration is an international … Continue reading →

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Hearing Shape of the Drum

Posted on April 23, 2013 by PlatoHagel

Mathematically ideal drums with membranes of these two different shapes (but otherwise identical) would sound the same, because the eigenfrequencies are all equal, so the timbral spectra would contain the same overtones. This example was constructed by Gordon, Webb and … Continue reading →

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Applying Color to the Real World

Posted on April 20, 2013 by PlatoHagel

Spectra are complex because each spectrum holds a wide variety of information. For instance, there are many different mechanisms by which an object, like a star, can produce light – or using the technical term for light, electromagnetic radiation. Each … Continue reading →

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Geometrical Underpinnings

Posted on April 20, 2013 by PlatoHagel

On the Hypotheses which lie at the Bases of Geometry.Bernhard RiemannTranslated by William Kingdon Clifford [Nature, Vol. VIII. Nos. 183, 184, pp. 14–17, 36, 37.] It is known that geometry assumes, as things given, both the notion of space and … Continue reading →

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