Author Archives: PlatoHagel

John Bahcall and the Neutrinos

Posted on February 27, 2006 by PlatoHagel

John Bahcall1934–2005 What makes the sun shine? How does the sun produce the vast amount of energy necessary to support life on earth? These questions challenged scientists for a hundred and fifty years, beginning in the middle of the nineteenth … Continue reading →

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Phase Transitions?

Posted on February 27, 2006 by PlatoHagel

G -> H -> … -> SU(3) x SU(2) x U(1) -> SU(3) x U(1) Here, each arrow represents a symmetry breaking phase transition where matter changes form and the groups – G, H, SU(3), etc. – represent the different … Continue reading →

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Roots, and the Rings of History

Posted on February 26, 2006 by PlatoHagel

The jump from conventional field theories of point-like objects to a theory of one-dimensional objects has striking implications. The vibration spectrum of the string contains a massless spin-2 particle: the graviton. Its long wavelength interactions are described by Einstein’s theory … Continue reading →

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Nothingness:The Science of Empty Space

Posted on February 26, 2006 by PlatoHagel

Henning Genz “The experiments at the LEP collider have shown us many times that all virtual particles need in order to become real is energy. Now, we might argue that the energy needed for the passage from virtual particles to … Continue reading →

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Nature in Analog Models

Posted on February 25, 2006 by PlatoHagel

Plato: “For everyone, as I think, must see that astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.” Oh! how complete our world view would be, that I have moved quickly to the very … Continue reading →

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Plato and Aristotle

Posted on February 24, 2006 by PlatoHagel

Plato – holding the Timaeus – Pointing up as a sign of his metaphysical belief in the higher world of the forms, shown with the face of Leonardo. Aristotle – holding his Ethics with hand palm down, reflecting a more … Continue reading →

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History of the Universe and the Standard Model

Posted on February 23, 2006 by PlatoHagel

Who would of thought the history of the universe could have ever been contained in this one moment? While it had been translated to 13.7 billions years, what is the value of recognizing this vast history, to what is contained … Continue reading →

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Resonance Curve

Posted on February 21, 2006 by PlatoHagel

Some might inference a very spherical world, but when you take “this view below” the world becomes very bumpy indeed. This was only possible by a revision in thinking and science of measure. Perspective was changed. The “biological genetic result” … Continue reading →

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More on Dual Nature of Blackhole

Posted on February 21, 2006 by PlatoHagel

In some theories, microscopic black holes may be produced in particle collisions that occur when very-high-energy cosmic rays hit particles in our atmosphere. These mini-black-holes would decay into ordinary particles in a tiny fraction of a second and would be … Continue reading →

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Dual Nature From Microstate Blackhole Creation?

Posted on February 18, 2006 by PlatoHagel

When a neutrino collides with a water molecule deep in Antarctica’s ice, the particle it produces radiates a blue light called Cerenkov radiation, which IceCube will detect (Steve Yunck/NSF) Plato: So, only from a high energy consideration “viscosity” (D brane … Continue reading →

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