Author Archives: PlatoHagel

Brian Clegg: Gravity

Posted on July 17, 2012 by PlatoHagel

A history of gravity, and a study of its importance and relevance to our lives, as well as its influence on other areas of science.  Physicists will tell you that four forces control the universe. Of these, gravity may the … Continue reading →

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Where is Our Starting Point?

Posted on July 16, 2012 by PlatoHagel

“The end he (the artist) strives for is something else than a perfectly executed print. His aim is to depict dreams, ideas, or problems in such a way that other people can observe and consider them.” – M.C. Escher The … Continue reading →

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Project Glass: I Can See Your Thoughts?

Posted on July 15, 2012 by PlatoHagel

We believe technology should work for you — to be there when you need it and get out of your way when you don’t. A team within our Google[x] group started Project Glass to build this kind of technology, one … Continue reading →

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Quantitative modeling of human brain activity

Posted on July 15, 2012 by PlatoHagel

Quantitative modeling of human brain activity can provide crucial insights about cortical representations [1,2] and can form the basis for brain decoding devices [3,4,5]. Recent functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies have modeled brain activity elicited by static visual patterns … Continue reading →

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Thoughts On Dark Matter Search

Posted on July 15, 2012 by PlatoHagel

   A filament of dark matter has been directly detected between the galaxy clusters Abell 222 and Abell 223. The blue shading and yellow contour lines represent the density of matter. Image credit: Jörg Dietrich, U-M Department of Physics In … Continue reading →

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Space Geodesy

Posted on July 15, 2012 by PlatoHagel

 Project manager Stephen Merkowitz talks about his work with NASA’s Space Geodesy Project, including a brief overview of the four fundamental techniques of space geodesy: GPS, VLBI, SLR, and DORIS. Learn more about space geodesy at: http://space-geodesy.nasa.gov/ This video is … Continue reading →

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Merging Galaxy Cluster Abell 520

Posted on July 14, 2012 by PlatoHagel

Merging Galaxy Cluster Abell 520 This composite image shows the distribution of dark matter, galaxies, and hot gas in the core of the merging galaxy cluster Abell 520, formed from a violent collision of massive galaxy clusters.  The natural-color image … Continue reading →

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EO: Earth Observatory

Posted on July 14, 2012 by PlatoHagel

Twelve years after the Earth was buffeted by one of the more potent Sun storms in modern history, our nearest star crackled with activity again. A solar flare erupted on July 12, 2012, followed closely by a companion coronal mass … Continue reading →

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Posted on July 13, 2012 by PlatoHagel

ATLAS INCLUSIVE SEARCHES FOR SUSY AND DARK MATTERSascha Caron (Radboud University Nijmegen and NIKHEF) See Also:Implications of LHC results for TeV-scale physics -Information to Conference supplied by Theoretical Physicist Matt Strassler Dialogos of Eide

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Fermi Provides Insights?

Posted on July 11, 2012 by PlatoHagel

 There’s more to the cosmos than meets the eye. About 80 percent of the matter in the universe is invisible to telescopes, yet its gravitational influence is manifest in the orbital speeds of stars around galaxies and in the motions … Continue reading →

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