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Black Hole Thoughts are Spoken: Complementarity vs Firewall
Black Holes: Complementarity vs Firewalls Subtitle: Strings 2012 Speaker: Raphael Bousso Location: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München Date: 27.07.2012 @ 16:04 [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnHEZxbK3lU%5D Ahmed Almheiri, Donald Marolf, Joseph Polchinski, James Sully We argue that the following three statements cannot all be true: (i) Hawking radiation is in a pure state, (ii) the information carried by the radiation is emitted from the region…
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Mining Helium 3 On the Moon
Helium-3 (He-3, sometimes called tralphium[1]) is a light, non-radioactive isotope of helium with two protons and one neutron. It is rare on the Earth, and it is sought for use in nuclear fusion research. The abundance of helium-3 is thought to be greater on the Moon (embedded in the upper layer of regolith by the…
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Noncommutative standard model
In theoretical particle physics, the non-commutative Standard Model, mainly due to the French mathematician Alain Connes, uses his noncommutative geometry to devise an extension of the Standard Model to include a modified form of general relativity. This unification implies a few constraints on the parameters of the Standard Model. Under an additional assumption, known as…
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Computational Dilemma
Riemannian Geometry, also known as elliptical geometry, is the geometry of the surface of a sphere. It replaces Euclid’s Parallel Postulate with, “Through any point in the plane, there exists no line parallel to a given line.” A line in this geometry is a great circle. The sum of the angles of a triangle in…
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The Geometrical State of the Universe
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Dark Energy Camera
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8u8OTBj-Wc4%5D Dark Energy Camera construction time lapse A long-awaited device that will help unravel one of the universe’s most compelling mysteries gets ready to see first light.See:The Dark Energy Camera opens its eyes Unlike the human eye, photographic film and digital cameras can stare at the sky for a long time and store more…
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Nova: Exploring Neutrino Mysteries
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fe4veClYxkE%5D Neutrinos are a mystery to physicists. They exist in three different flavors and mass states and may be able to give hints about the origins of the matter-dominated universe. A new long-baseline experiment led by Fermilab called NOvA may provide some answers. There is a live feed of the first detector block being…
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Duchamp’s Fountain
Duchamp~ Artmaking is making the invisible, visible. See: Marcel Duchamps’s Fountain: It’s History and Aesthetics in Context of 1917 by William Camfield Click on Image The extended understanding for me of Duchamp as an artist was always in context of the cubists revelation as an evolution of Quantum Gravity displayed in a Monte Carlo demonstration…
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The Quantum Harmonic Oscillator
Quantum Harmonic Oscillator Here are a series of written Blog entries by Matt Strassler from his Blog, Of Particular Significance. Ball on a Spring (Classical) Ball on a Spring (Quantum) Waves (Classical Form) Waves (Classical Equation of Motion) Waves (Quantum) Fields Particles are Quanta How fields and particles interact with each other How the…
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Moon Pictures
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/ LPOD Photo Gallery Motivation During the late 1800s and well into the 1900s it seemed that every book that described the craters, mountains and other features of Earth’s moon was titled The Moon. In my mind this came to stand for an encyclopedia-like series of descriptions of features on the lunar surface. In general,…
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Space Weather Now
2012-09-03 15:14 UTC G2 (Moderate) Geomagnetic Storm in Progress G2 (Moderate) geomagnetic storming is ongoing now as a result of the coronal mass ejection (CME) arrival associated with the August 31st filament eruption. Continued geomagnetic storming is expected in the near term as the CME continues to affect Earth. Solar radiation storm levels continue to hover near…
