Author Archives: PlatoHagel

Aspera

Posted on October 18, 2011 by PlatoHagel

Home Site Located in Title A European Network For Astroparticle Physics in Europe ASPERA is a network of national government agencies responsible for coordinating and funding national research efforts in Astroparticle Physics Hunting neutrinos… The IceCube experiment *** See Also: … Continue reading →

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The Chicagoland Observatory for Underground Particle Physics (COUPP)

Posted on October 18, 2011 by PlatoHagel

The Chicagoland Observatory for Underground Particle Physics (COUPP) collaboration looks for bubbles in chambers filled with a compound containing carbon, fluorine and iodine. The fluid is superheated beyond the boiling point but has no rough surface to form bubbles. When … Continue reading →

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Particles that can hit the Earth’s atmosphere at high speeds.

Posted on October 15, 2011 by PlatoHagel

Source: University of Chicago Library Enrico Fermi’s notebook of December 1948 contains four pages that represent the genesis of his theory of cosmic rays, particles that can hit the Earth’s atmosphere at high speeds. In these pages, he worked out … Continue reading →

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Photos: CERN – A tour of the large hadron collider

Posted on October 14, 2011 by PlatoHagel

Photos: CERN – A tour of the large hadron collider Dialogos of Eide

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Jets in a Medium

Posted on October 14, 2011 by PlatoHagel

[Picture credit: Thorsten Renk, Slide 17 of this presentention] Centrality Dependance See: AdS/CFT confronts data Dialogos of Eide

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Seeing Underlying Structures

Posted on October 12, 2011 by PlatoHagel

 There is  gap between,  “Proton Collision ->Decay to Muons and Muon Neutrinos ->Tau Neutrino ->[gap] tau lepton may travel some tens of microns before decaying back into neutrino and charged tracks.” Use the case of Relativistic Muons?  An analysis of … Continue reading →

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The World as a Hologram

Posted on October 9, 2011 by PlatoHagel

UC Berkeley’s Raphael Bousso presents a friendly introduction to the ideas behind the holographic principle, which may be very important in the hunt for a theory of quantum gravity. Series: “Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Summer Lecture Series” [3/2006] [Science] [Show … Continue reading →

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Science vs. Spirituality: Deepak Chopra And Leonard Mlodinow Discuss ‘War Of The Worldviews’

Posted on October 9, 2011 by PlatoHagel

Article linked in Title. The debate between science and spirituality is framed as a knock down fight for truth with winner take all. But does it have to be that way? Deepak Chopra is a physician and one of the … Continue reading →

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Subtly Shaded Map of Moon Reveals Titanium Treasure Troves

Posted on October 8, 2011 by PlatoHagel

A map of the Moon combining observations in visible and ultraviolet wavelengths shows a treasure trove of areas rich in Titanium ores. Not only is Titanium a valuable mineral, it is key to helping scientists unravel the mysteries of the … Continue reading →

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Cohen-Glashow Argument

Posted on October 7, 2011 by PlatoHagel

Bee:And for all I know you need a charge for Cherenkov radiation and neutrinos don’t have one. Fig. 1: Cerenkov radiation involves the nearly continuous emission of photons by a charged particle moving faster than the speed of light in … Continue reading →

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