Author Archives: PlatoHagel

What Dirac And Feynman Had in Common?

Posted on August 27, 2013 by PlatoHagel

“The adventure of our science of physics is a perpetual attempt to recognize that the different aspects of nature are really different aspects of the same thing” — Richard Feynman Should I be so bold to change the word in … Continue reading →

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True North

Posted on August 25, 2013 by PlatoHagel

What is your true north? What does your bird look like? http://www.revivewithenergy.com If you find that you are confused on whether you are sensing the voice of intuition or the voice of ego, skip to 5 min 40 secs to … Continue reading →

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Re-thinking an Alien World?

Posted on August 25, 2013 by PlatoHagel

A distant super-Earth named “”55 Cancri e”” is wetter and weirder than astronomers thought possible. The discovery has researchers re-thinking the nature of alien worlds.  Visit http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/… Dialogos of Eide

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How to Make a Neutrino Beam

Posted on August 24, 2013 by PlatoHagel

Hey why not get an animated view of the reasons how? It is from an Symmetry Magazine article on November of 2012. It is information worth remembering in the scheme of particle reductionism.. Neutrinos are elusive particles that are difficult … Continue reading →

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Euclid

Posted on August 23, 2013 by PlatoHagel

Socratica Studios Maybe you can identify the section from which this picture is taken from. The picture seen in the Fresco painted by Raphael, is entitled the School of Athens in  heading above?:) All those who have written histories bring … Continue reading →

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The Commissioning of the ATLAS

Posted on August 16, 2013 by PlatoHagel

Atlas Experiment :Tile Calorimeter Barrel The commissioning of the ATLAS detector with physics data started more than three years ago with cosmic rays. This has enabled us to put in place the full operation chain, from the trigger and data … Continue reading →

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NuStar: Blackhole Hunter

Posted on August 16, 2013 by PlatoHagel

NuSTAR is opening a new window on the Universe by being the first satellite to focus high-energy X-rays into sharp images. NuSTAR’s high-energy X-rays eyes see with more than 100 times the sensitivity of previous missions that have operated in … Continue reading →

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Six Years Gone By

Posted on August 16, 2013 by PlatoHagel

Winter Shangrila Dialogos of Eide

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Will Quantum Gravity Get Us to the Stars?

Posted on August 8, 2013 by PlatoHagel

The Foundational Questions Institute (FQXi) 2nd International Conference in Ponta Delgada, Azores. July 7-12, 2009. Topics include cosmology, astrophysics, gravity, quantum gravity, quantum theory, and high-energy physics. http://www.fqxi.org/ The Meduso-Anthropic Principle is a speculative theory by Louis Crane (1994). The … Continue reading →

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Lee Smolin: Cosmological Natural Selection

Posted on August 7, 2013 by PlatoHagel

Which leads to a prediction or an observation that after many, many generations the population of the universes should be fine-tuned to maximize the production of Black Holes. And that has further implications for things that we can actually try … Continue reading →

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