Author Archives: PlatoHagel

Frogs, Foam and Fuel: UC Researchers Convert Solar Energy to Sugars

Posted on March 16, 2010 by PlatoHagel

Photos By: Illustration by Megan Gundrum, fifth-year DAAP student For decades, farmers have been trying to find ways to get more energy out of the sun. In natural photosynthesis, plants take in solar energy and carbon dioxide and then convert … Continue reading →

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The, Periodic Table of The Elements Song

Posted on March 11, 2010 by PlatoHagel

Dialogos of Eide

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Neutron interferometer

Posted on March 3, 2010 by PlatoHagel

Lubos Motl: You have completely misunderstood the neutron gravitational interference experiment. They showed that the force acting on the neutron is simply not negligible. Quite on the contrary, these interference experiments could measure and did measure the gravitational acceleration – … Continue reading →

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Trivium:Three Roads

Posted on March 1, 2010 by PlatoHagel

  Logic is the art of thinking; grammar, the art of inventing symbols and combining them to express thought; and rhetoric, the art of communicating thought from one mind to another, the adaptation of language to circumstance.Sister Miriam Joseph  Painting … Continue reading →

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Calorimetric Equivalence Principle Test

Posted on February 23, 2010 by PlatoHagel

With Stefan shutting down the blog temporary I thought to gather my thoughts here. Gravitomagnetism This approximate reformulation of gravitation as described by general relativity makes a “fictitious force” appear in a frame of reference different from a moving, gravitating … Continue reading →

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Physicists Discover How to Entangle at High Temperatures

Posted on February 22, 2010 by PlatoHagel

While I do not just like to echo in the world of information it is important to me to see how we can use entanglement to give us information about quantum gravity. Is it possible? Entanglement is the weird quantum … Continue reading →

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Economy, as Science

Posted on February 20, 2010 by PlatoHagel

A shift in paradigm can lead, via the theory-dependence of observation, to a difference in one’s experiences of things and thus to a change in one’s phenomenal world.ON Thomas Kuhn   Control the information you control the people?:) Again as … Continue reading →

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Article From New York Times and More

Posted on February 16, 2010 by PlatoHagel

Brookhaven National Laboratory HOT A computer rendition of 4-trillion-degree Celsius quark-gluon plasma created in a demonstration of what scientists suspect shaped cosmic history. In Brookhaven Collider, Scientists Briefly Break a Law of Nature The Brookhaven scientists and their colleagues discussed … Continue reading →

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The Last Question by Isaac Asimov

Posted on February 12, 2010 by PlatoHagel

The problem of heat can be a frustrating one if one can contend with the computer chips and how this may of resulted in a reboot of the machine( or it’s death) into a better state of existence then what … Continue reading →

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GOCE delivering data for best gravity map ever

Posted on February 10, 2010 by PlatoHagel

30 September 2009Following the launch and in-orbit testing of the most sophisticated gravity mission ever built, ESA’s GOCE satellite is now in ‘measurement mode’, mapping tiny variations in Earth’s gravity in unprecedented detail.  The ‘Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation … Continue reading →

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