Author Archives: PlatoHagel

Maurits Cornelis Escher

Posted on January 4, 2011 by PlatoHagel

A 1929 self-portrait Born June 17, 1898Leeuwarden, The Netherlands Died 27 March 1972 (aged 73)Laren, The Netherlands Nationality Dutch Field Drawing, Printmaking Works Relativity, Waterfall, Hand with Reflecting Sphere Influenced by Giovanni Battista Piranesi Awards Knighthood of the Order of Orange-Nassau     … Continue reading →

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Concepts Fade to Moments

Posted on January 3, 2011 by PlatoHagel

Relativity, by M. C. Escher. Lithograph, 1953. Source: Official M.C. Escher website. Of course I struggle “with” as to be free and in liberation of, as if to liberate oneself from all the constraints that we have applied to our … Continue reading →

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Measure and Half Measures

Posted on December 27, 2010 by PlatoHagel

Pythagoras, the man in the center with the book, teaching music, in The School of Athens by Raphael Most of  you will recognize the partial image of the much larger I have used as the heading of this blog. The … Continue reading →

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Feather and Iron?

Posted on December 21, 2010 by PlatoHagel

Weight and amount Main article: weight Anubis weighing the heart of Hunefer, 1285 BC   Weight, by definition, is a measure of the force which must be applied to support an object (i.e. hold it at rest) in a gravitational … Continue reading →

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How Observant is your Science Mind?

Posted on December 14, 2010 by PlatoHagel

This image above I have discussed before on this website. It is also in the legend on the right hand side of this web page. Maybe you can see the “symmetry at play?”:) Dürer Magic Square with Lines Albrecht Durer … Continue reading →

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Cosmic Screens

Posted on December 13, 2010 by PlatoHagel

[Recommended] Five Showers (Windows only). This has five showers (alpha, proton. gamma, iron, etc) at 333 ns per time step, and with a much more user-friendly interface than the other showers below. The interface was made by Mark SubbaRao using … Continue reading →

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2010 ion run: completed!

Posted on December 13, 2010 by PlatoHagel

First direct observation of jet quenching. At the recent seminar, the LHC’s dedicated heavy-ion experiment, ALICE, confirmed that QGP behaves like an ideal liquid, a phenomenon earlier observed at the US Brookhaven Laboratory’s RHIC facility. This question was indeed one … Continue reading →

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The Compact Muon Solenoid……

Posted on December 13, 2010 by PlatoHagel

Coordinates: 46°18′34″N 6°4′37″E / 46.30944°N 6.07694°E / 46.30944; 6.07694 Large Hadron Collider (LHC) LHC experiments ATLAS A Toroidal LHC Apparatus CMS Compact Muon Solenoid LHCb LHC-beauty ALICE A Large Ion Collider Experiment TOTEM Total Cross Section, Elastic Scattering and Diffraction … Continue reading →

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Antarctic Muon And Neutrino Detector Array….

Posted on December 13, 2010 by PlatoHagel

Diagram of IceCube. IceCube will occupy a volume of one cubic kilometer. Here we depict one of the 80 strings of opctical modules (number and size not to scale). IceTop located at the surface, comprises an array of sensors to … Continue reading →

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Muons reveal the interior of volcanoes

Posted on December 13, 2010 by PlatoHagel

The location of the muon detector on the slopes of the Vesuvius volcano. Like X-ray scans of the human body, muon radiography allows researchers to obtain an image of the internal structures of the upper levels of volcanoes. Although such … Continue reading →

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