Author Archives: PlatoHagel

A Planetarium Show by ESO

The planetarium show “From Earth to the Universe” v2  European Southern Observatory (ESO) Dialogos of Eide

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SWARM

Launched in November 2013, Swarm is providing unprecedented insights into the complex workings of Earth’s magnetic field, which safeguards us from the bombarding cosmic radiation and charged particles. June 2014 magnetic field Measurements made over the past six months confirm … Continue reading

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Geodynamics

Mean Gravity Field Image credit: Unless otherwise noted, images are provided by University of Texas Center for Space Research and NASA  On planet Earth, we tend to think of the gravitational effect as being the same no matter where we … Continue reading

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AMS-02

Information gathering. Unlock Secrets of the Cosmos AMS-02 is a multipurpose magnetic spectrometer designed to measure elementary particles and nuclei to the TeV region. In the five years since its installation on the International Space Station, it has collected more … Continue reading

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The Foundation of Reality?

I had been on this pathway a long time to ask the question of what lays at the very foundation of our reality.  I was intrigued by Plato’s solids to wonder if this was the first attempt to describe the … Continue reading

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Stephen Hawking and Celebrities

Stephen Hawking vs. Paul Rudd in Quantum Chess (feat. Keanu Reeves) Stephen Hawking + Zoe Saldana: Quantum is Calling ft. Keanu Reeves, Simon Pegg, John Cho, Paul Rudd Dialogos of Eide

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A New Home on Mars: NASA Langley’s Icy Concept for Living on the Red Planet

An artist’s rendering of the Mars Ice Home concept. Credits: NASA/Clouds AO/SEArch A New Home on Mars: NASA Langley’s Icy Concept for Living on the Red Planet: For researchers at NASA’s Langley Research Center, the best building material for a … Continue reading

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Search for Dark Matter in Gamma Rays

This view from NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope is the deepest and best-resolved portrait of the gamma-ray sky to date. The image shows how the sky appears at energies more than 150 million times greater than that of visible light. … Continue reading

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Talking About How We See Reality

Donal Hoffman’s TED presentation   We’re inclined to think that perception is like a window on reality as it is.The theory of evolution is telling us that this is an incorrect interpretationof our perceptions.Instead, reality is more like a 3D … Continue reading

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Nima Arkani-Hamed – Physics and Mathematics for the End of Spacetime

See Also: Nima Arkani-Hamed – Physics and Mathematics for the End of Spacetime Dialogos of Eide

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