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Inaugural Symposium of the Hyper-Kamiokande Proto-Collaboration

The Hyper-Kamiokande project aims to address the mysteries of the origin and evolution of the Universe’s matter and to confront theories of elementary particle unification. To realize these goals the project will combine a high intensity neutrino beam from the … Continue reading

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Superfluidity and the Roton

University of Chicago scientists can create an exotic, particle-like excitation called a roton in superfluids with the tabletop apparatus pictured here. Posing left to right are graduate students Li-Chung Ha and Logan Clark, and Prof. Cheng Chin. See: Cesium atoms … Continue reading

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After Relativism

Watch more videos on iai.tv ***  “…underwriting the form languages of ever more domains of mathematics is a set of deep patterns which not only offer access to a kind of ideality that Plato claimed to see the universe as … Continue reading

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Quantum Chromodynamics

Source – http://serious-science.org/videos/1060 Nobel Prize laureate David Gross on Rutherford experiments, asymptotic freedom, and the origin of the particle masses Dialogos of Eide

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The Dark Matter Hunt

Dark matter, the substance making up 85 percent of all the mass in the universe, is invisible. The goal of ADMX is to detect it by turning it into photons, particles of light. Dark matter was forged in the early … Continue reading

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Rationalism vs Empiricism

The dispute between rationalism and empiricism concerns the extent to which we are dependent upon sense experience in our effort to gain knowledge. Rationalists claim that there are significant ways in which our concepts and knowledge are gained independently of … Continue reading

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The Future in NanoTechnologies

*** See Also: NanoTechnology The Opensource Handbook of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Scienceshow/Nanotechnology Dialogos of Eide

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Creation of Matter?

“When the photon exits the medium, its identity is preserved,” Lukin said. “It’s the same effect we see with refraction of light in a water glass. The light enters the water, it hands off part of its energy to the … Continue reading

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The Axion of the Quark Gluon Pasma?

In physics, an anomalon is a hypothetical type of nuclear matter that shows an anomalously large reactive cross section. They were first noticed in experimental runs in the early 1980s as short tracks in film emulsions or plastic leaf detectors … Continue reading

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A Merry Christmas Sun Light

The sun emitted a significant solar flare, peaking at 7:24 p.m. EST on Dec. 19, 2014. NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, which watches the sun constantly, captured an image of the event. Solar flares are powerful bursts of radiation. Harmful radiation … Continue reading

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