Author Archives: PlatoHagel

The Edge World Question Center:

Posted on January 22, 2011 by PlatoHagel

Evidently, something powerful had happened in my brain.FRANK WILCZEK So this year….. WHAT SCIENTIFIC CONCEPT WOULD IMPROVE EVERYBODY’S COGNITIVE TOOLKIT? The term ‘scientific”is to be understood in a broad sense as the most reliable way of gaining knowledge about anything, … Continue reading →

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String Theory and the Real World

Posted on January 21, 2011 by PlatoHagel

To be sure, the majority of research into string theory is not focused on how the theory connects to the real world; rather, most physicists are exploring questions at a more theoretical level. Such formal work is necessary, because as … Continue reading →

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We Cannot Apply Constraints to Communication?

Posted on January 14, 2011 by PlatoHagel

Is the public winners in decisions that “add more cost” to what should be access to “freedoms of information?” The Cathedral and the Bizarre by Jeff Lewis The problem there is that the ‘capitalist trench’ problem is just as real … Continue reading →

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Moon Base Alpha

Posted on January 14, 2011 by PlatoHagel

This treaty became effective on January 27, 1967. As its name implies, the Outer Space Treaty prohibits placing into orbit around the Earth any objects carrying nuclear weapons or any other kinds of weapons of mass destruction, the installation of … Continue reading →

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Intricacies of Perspective

Posted on January 13, 2011 by PlatoHagel

“Thus (through perspective) every sort of confusion is revealed within us; and this is that weakness of the human mind on which the art of conjuring and of deceiving by light and shadow and other ingenious devices imposes, having an … Continue reading →

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Above and Beyond Culturomics

Posted on January 13, 2011 by PlatoHagel

Google’s Ngram Viewer Click on Image Web Semantics: Google Books Culturomics By Bruce Sterling December 16, 2010  |  10:25 pm  |  Categories: Web Semantics http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2010/12/16/the-cultural-genome-google-books-reveals-traces-of-fame-censorship-and-changing-languages/ “Just as petrified fossils tell us about the evolution of life on earth, the words … Continue reading →

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Understanding a Perspective About Color of Gravity

Posted on January 12, 2011 by PlatoHagel

If we can help ourselves see the world in “new ways” why not allow ourselves such freedoms? See how it extends our views on what we have always “thought about” moves us beyond “the way” in which we have measured … Continue reading →

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Crab Nebula

Posted on January 8, 2011 by PlatoHagel

This is a mosaic image, one of the largest ever taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope of the Crab Nebula, a six-light-year-wide expanding remnant of a star’s supernova explosion. Japanese and Chinese astronomers recorded this violent event nearly 1,000 years … Continue reading →

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Lessons in Life

Posted on January 7, 2011 by PlatoHagel

 For me there has to be a beginning for any object of presentation,  so that the understanding fully incorporates how one is looking at say “our skies historically” can be the seed of what matures tomorrow. While that process and … Continue reading →

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Sonification

Posted on January 5, 2011 by PlatoHagel

The lessons of history are clear. The more exotic, the more abstract the knowledge, the more profound will be its consequences.” Leon Lederman, from an address to the Franklin Institute, 1995 BBC article-Click on Image See Also: LHC sound *** … Continue reading →

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