Author Archives: PlatoHagel

Body Self Perception

Posted on June 20, 2011 by PlatoHagel

Body Self  Perception For me it is sort of like trying to define the space around you and the depth perception one has of that space. It is also about location and whether awareness can pick up on other thing … Continue reading →

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TAUWER Test

Posted on June 17, 2011 by PlatoHagel

TAUWER is a proposed astroparticle experiment to detect ultrahigh energy TAU neutrinos, using detector towers arrayed on a mountainside looking down into a valley. This test is to study the possibility of replacing Hamamatsu miniature PMTs with SiPMs for readout … Continue reading →

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A Conformal Field Theory Approach?

Posted on June 15, 2011 by PlatoHagel

Using the anti–de Sitter/conformal field theory correspondence to relate fermionic quantum critical fields to a gravitational problem, we computed the spectral functions of fermions in the field theory. By increasing the fermion density away from the relativistic quantum critical point, … Continue reading →

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Extra-Dimensions….What is Heaven Like?

Posted on June 15, 2011 by PlatoHagel

Fidel wrote: And yet modern science says it’s not so silly, and that many things are possible now that were deemed not to be in relatively recent history. That statement Fidel might be one that is not true. Extra-dimensions is … Continue reading →

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The Socratic Method…..and Plato’s Ideas, is Replaced by Google?

Posted on June 14, 2011 by PlatoHagel

http://youtu.be/dk60sYrU2RU The idea that truth is timeless and resides outside the universe was the essence of Plato’s philosophy, exemplified in the parable of the slave boy that was meant to argue that discovery is merely remembering. Lee Smolin  Bold added … Continue reading →

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Oh My God Particles

Posted on June 13, 2011 by PlatoHagel

“The soul is awestruck and shudders at the sight of the beautiful.” Plato Leon Max Lederman (born July 15, 1922) is an American experimental physicist and Nobel Prize in Physics laureate for his work with neutrinos. He is Director Emeritus … Continue reading →

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Donald Coxeter

Posted on June 11, 2011 by PlatoHagel

Photo by Graham Challifour. Reproduced from Critchlow, 1979, p. 132. “I’m a Platonist — a follower of Plato — who believes that one didn’t invent these sorts of things, that one discovers them. In a sense, all these mathematical facts … Continue reading →

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Color of Gravity 4

Posted on June 6, 2011 by PlatoHagel

This is the most important song I’ve ever written, it’s a time capsule song. I will listen to it every day of my life if I need to. It’s honest to God the most important song I’ve ever written in … Continue reading →

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Space Travel and Propulsion Methods

Posted on June 5, 2011 by PlatoHagel

As a layman, my interest has been mainly focused on gravity and a means to defy it. How one can see in different ways. The Lagrange Points In the above contour plot we see that L4 and L5 correspond to … Continue reading →

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Wireless Affects on Biological Systems

Posted on June 5, 2011 by PlatoHagel

Hmmmm…….Brain tumour risk in relation to mobiletelephone use: results of the INTERPHONEinternational case–control study Michael Kundi, head of the Institute of Environmental Health, Medical University of Vienna says of the study “Authors emphasize that no increased risk was detected overall. … Continue reading →

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