Author Archives: PlatoHagel

Perseid Meteor Shower

Posted on August 10, 2012 by PlatoHagel

Visit http://science.nasa.gov/ for more. The Perseid meteor shower is underway. There’s more to see than meteors, however, when the shower peaks on August 11th through 13th. The brightest planets in the solar system are lining up in the middle of … Continue reading →

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Mechanical Converted Sounds of Operation

Posted on August 9, 2012 by PlatoHagel

MSL Curiosity’s Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer, with a ruler ChemCam: ChemCam is a suite of remote sensing instruments, including the first laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) system to be used for planetary science and a remote micro-imager (RMI). See also: Curiosity … Continue reading →

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Sphere and Sound Waves

Posted on August 8, 2012 by PlatoHagel

Don demonstrates water oscillations on a speaker in microgravity, and ZZ Top rocks the boat 250 miles above Earth.Science off the Sphere: Space Soundwaves So of course I might wonder about cymatics in space. It ‘s more the idea that … Continue reading →

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Antennae Starwave Formation

Posted on August 7, 2012 by PlatoHagel

Supernova explosions are enriching the intergalactic gas with elements like oxygen, iron, and silicon that will be incorporated into new generations of stars and planets X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO/J.DePasquale; IR: NASA/JPL-Caltech; Optical: NASA/STScI A beautiful new image of two colliding galaxies has … Continue reading →

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Info From PI-CMS Workshop on LHC and More

Posted on August 7, 2012 by PlatoHagel

A slice of the CMS detector. Broadly speaking, the aim of the talk is to give the theorists in the audience anintroduction to state-of-the-art reconstruction (e.g. particle flow, techniques for dealing with high pile-up, the status of tau reconstruction) and … Continue reading →

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Experimental Search for Quantum Gravity

Posted on August 7, 2012 by PlatoHagel

 Sabine Hossenfelder “ESQG Summary and Outlook” Talk on 16 July 2010 at the workshop “Experimental Search for Quantum Gravity”, 12-16 July, 2010, at Nordita in Stockholm, Sweden. http://www.nordita.org/esqg2010 See Also: Bee Writes:I like this example of neutral Kaon oscillations because … Continue reading →

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For You Men Out There

Posted on August 6, 2012 by PlatoHagel

This post has been due in that one can learn so many things about ones perspective having been engaged with the realities. So it was with me that I was at a loss of how to deal with,  that my … Continue reading →

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Mars Rover: Curiosity

Posted on August 2, 2012 by PlatoHagel

‘Greeley Panorama’ from Opportunity’s Fifth Martian Winter This full-circle scene combines 817 images taken by the panoramic camera (Pancam) on NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity. It shows the terrain that surrounded the rover while it was stationary for four months … Continue reading →

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Physicists show strengthened signals of Higgs-like particle in publications

Posted on August 2, 2012 by PlatoHagel

Protons collide in the CMS detector at 8 TeV, forming Z bosons which decay into electrons (green lines) and muons (red). Such an event is compatible with the decay of a Standard Model Higgs boson. Image: CMS The CMS and … Continue reading →

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New Ways of Looking at Things

Posted on August 2, 2012 by PlatoHagel

I am having some  problems defining the way in which some concepts have been presented for consideration. So it may seem a little frazzled but it’s one of those things that sits just below the surface waiting to be explained … Continue reading →

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