Author Archives: PlatoHagel

Living With A Star

Posted on March 29, 2011 by PlatoHagel

The Living With a Star (LWS) program emphasizes the science necessary to understand those aspects of the Sun and the Earth’s space environment that affect life and society. The ultimate goal is to provide a predictive understanding of the system, … Continue reading →

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SuperMoon

Posted on March 20, 2011 by PlatoHagel

A supermoon image of March 19, 2011 In astrology, a supermoon is a full or new moon that coincides with a close approach by the Moon to the Earth. The Moon’s distance varies each month between approximately 354,000 km (220,000 … Continue reading →

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Developing Scenario

Posted on March 17, 2011 by PlatoHagel

We can learn about the first fraction of a second, among other things, by studying the polarization pattern of the CMB…Yuki D. Takahashi I was glad to see link  by Bee of Backreaction that expanded on what I had learn … Continue reading →

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Turn Fermi Toward Japan Skies

Posted on March 16, 2011 by PlatoHagel

Tokyo Electric Power Co./AP  View of damaged No.  4 unit of the Fukushima nuclear plant in northeastern Japan. Workers abandoned Japan‘s quake-stricken nuclear plant on the verge of meltdown Tuesday when increasing radiation levels made it too dangerous to remain.See: … Continue reading →

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A Microscope on a Macroscopic World?

Posted on March 12, 2011 by PlatoHagel

“Nothing to me would be more poetic; no outcome would be more graceful … than for us to confirm our theories of the ultramicroscopic makeup of spacetime and matter by turning our giant telescopes skyward and gazing at the stars,” … Continue reading →

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NASA’s Fermi Catches Thunderstorms Hurling Antimatter into Space

Posted on March 11, 2011 by PlatoHagel

How thunderstorms launch particle beams into space Scientists using NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have detected beams of antimatter produced above thunderstorms on Earth, a phenomenon never seen before. Scientists think the antimatter particles were formed in a terrestrial gamma-ray … Continue reading →

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ICECUBE

Posted on March 9, 2011 by PlatoHagel

 For me, the idea of a backdrop measure, as if Thomas Young experimentally fires his photon gun, the collision points at the LHC provide dimensional references(flight paths) to events that are measured  by comparison of LHC too,  muon detection facilitations … Continue reading →

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Are There Extra Dimensions of Space?

Posted on March 9, 2011 by PlatoHagel

Are there Extra Dimensions of Space? A QGP is formed at the collision point of two relativistically accelerated gold ions in the center of the STAR detector at the relativistic heavy ion collider at the Brookhaven national laboratory. Some of … Continue reading →

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Novum Organum

Posted on March 5, 2011 by PlatoHagel

The frontispiece of Novum Organum by Francis Bacon The Novum Organum is a philosophical work by Francis Bacon published in 1620. The title translates as “new instrument”. This is a reference to Aristotle‘s work Organon, which was his treatise on … Continue reading →

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Shape as Memory : A Geometric Theory of Architecture

Posted on February 24, 2011 by PlatoHagel

I have yet to read the book. What came to mind as I was looking at this has to do with the landscape of ideas. It has to do with what is lying in those valleys. This may supply some … Continue reading →

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