Author Archives: PlatoHagel

Nima Arkani-Hamed Lectures

Posted on September 20, 2013 by PlatoHagel

Nima Arkani-Hamed on developments in Physics and future vision The Salam Lecture Series 2012, with a week-long series of lectures by renowned theoretical physicist Nima Arkani-Hamed. Giving his audience a panoramic view of 400 years of physics in his first … Continue reading →

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Exploring Matter At the Dawn of Time

Posted on September 15, 2013 by PlatoHagel

Physicist Paul Sorensen describes discoveries made at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), a particle accelerator at Brookhaven National Laboratory. At RHIC, scientists from around the world study what the universe may have looked like in the first microseconds after … Continue reading →

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Detailed Characterization of Jets in Heavy Ion Collisions Using Jet Shapes and Jet Fragmentation Functions

Posted on September 12, 2013 by PlatoHagel

The CMS detector has excellent capabilities for studying high-pT jets formed in heavy ion collisions. Previous CMS analyses have characterized the energy loss of hard-scattered partons traversing the medium produced in such collisions at a center of mass energy of … Continue reading →

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Hubble Movie Theater: Revelation

Posted on September 12, 2013 by PlatoHagel

Take a thrill ride through 15 years of Hubble images, starting with Hubble’s first picture and ending with its anniversary image of the Whirlpool Galaxy. In less than three minutes, 800 Hubble images flash over the screen, sometimes as fast … Continue reading →

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PI director Neil Turok’s welcome speech

Posted on September 11, 2013 by PlatoHagel

http://streamer2.perimeterinstitute.ca/files/mediaplayer/player.swf See Also: Perimeter Institute and the crisis in modern physics Dialogos of Eide

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Catching Black Holes on the Fly

Posted on September 7, 2013 by PlatoHagel

Black Holes Shine for NuSTAR Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA’s black-hole-hunter spacecraft, the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, has “bagged” its first 10 supermassive black holes. The mission, which has a mast the length of a school bus, is the … Continue reading →

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Andy Warhol’s Campbell Soup

Posted on August 29, 2013 by PlatoHagel

Andy Warhol’s Campbell Soup

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How to Find Black holes with Lasers

Posted on August 29, 2013 by PlatoHagel

In February 2013 I was invited by the Institute of Physics to give a lecture in the famous lecture theatre of the Royal Institution of Great Britainas part of their Physics in Perspective series. I was to expect about 400 … Continue reading →

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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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