Author Archives: PlatoHagel

ALICE Enters New Territory

Posted on July 11, 2011 by PlatoHagel

A computer screen in the ALICE control room shows an event display on the night of the first heavy-ion collisions in the LHC in November 2010. A basic process in QCD is the energy loss of a fast parton in … Continue reading →

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My Hat’s Off too: Open Hardware Movement

Posted on July 10, 2011 by PlatoHagel

Sir Tim, creator of the World Wide Web, pointed to open data and linked data as exciting examples of the way that the Web is promoting transparency of information and looked forward to the time when the current 20 per … Continue reading →

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QGP Advances

Posted on July 8, 2011 by PlatoHagel

Even the famous helium-3, which can flow out of a container via capillary forces, does not count as a perfect fluid.What black holes teach about strongly coupled particles by Clifford V. Johnson and Peter Steinberg….May of Last Year. If helium-3 … Continue reading →

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Atlas Experiment :Tile Calorimeter Barrel

Posted on July 8, 2011 by PlatoHagel

Atlas Photos The tile calorimeter will collect the energy released in the LHC’s proton-proton collisions. Special plastic manufacturing techniques have been adapted to mass produce the ATLAS elements. Dialogos of Eide

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Strings 2011 in Uppsala, Sweden

Posted on July 4, 2011 by PlatoHagel

Welcome to Strings 2011 in Uppsala, Sweden!    Thanks to Lubos Motl for link too, “Jeff Harvey Summary Video” and of course,  the current state of String Theory. Of course conference has since past,  but hey, the information is great … Continue reading →

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Tattoos

Posted on July 1, 2011 by PlatoHagel

Let no one destitute of geometry enter my doors.” I never gave much thought to it before. I thought at this late stage in my life what affect could it possibly having coming now to the twilight years of my … Continue reading →

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Cymascope

Posted on June 30, 2011 by PlatoHagel

Vibration underpins all matter in the universe. No matter can exist without sound and vibration. To see the periodic motions that lie at the heart of matter is to lift the veils that conceal many mysteries of the universe. The … Continue reading →

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The Classical Education Movement Historical

Posted on June 29, 2011 by PlatoHagel

Seal of the University of Pennsylvania from 1894 depicting the trivium as a stack of books providing the foundation for a quadrivium of mathematics, natural philosophy (empirical science), astronomy, and theology. The Classical education movement advocates a form of education … Continue reading →

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A General Guide to Harmonic Analysis and Beyond

Posted on June 26, 2011 by PlatoHagel

Thanks to Clifford of Asymptotia for the Link too, and from Good Vibration Some of us do look toward these analogies as signs of Complexity science, so as to apply this thinking to the life they lead. How such implementations … Continue reading →

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The Sound The Universe Makes

Posted on June 21, 2011 by PlatoHagel

As most know who have come to visit here at this Blog site, my fascination with the ways in which “sensationally” and internally one might look at the universe. So of course as long as the science is there in … Continue reading →

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