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  • Antennae Starwave Formation

    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 been released by NASA’s Great Observatories. The Antennae galaxies, located about 62 million light years…

  • Info From PI-CMS Workshop on LHC and More

    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 their implications for searches. A discussion of triggering (whether focused on hadronic or more general)…

  • Experimental Search for Quantum Gravity

     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 it demonstrates so clearly that quantum gravitational effects are not necessarily too small to be…

  • For You Men Out There

    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 sweet wife gave me a book to read. It has been a source of comfort…

  • Mars Rover: Curiosity

    ‘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 of work during its most recent Martian winter.Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell/Arizona State Univ. Looking for Curiosity?…

  • Physicists show strengthened signals of Higgs-like particle in publications

    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 ATLAS experiments at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider released papers Tuesday confirming their earlier simultaneous, independent…

  • New Ways of Looking at Things

    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 clearly and concisely. As a scientist you may not care.  I had thought then how…

  • Ruminations on Alchemy of Sir Isaac Newton

    Newton’s Translation of the Emerald Tablet It is true without lying, certain and most true. That which is Below is like that which is Above and that which is Above is like that which is Below to do the miracles of the Only Thing. And as all things have been and arose from One by…

  • Silica Garden Illustrating Mineral "Vegetation"

    In Newton’s day, a silica garden was usually made by placing ferric chloride lumps in a solution of potassium silicate, as in the following demonstration. See: Multimedia Lab Isaac Newton is known today as one of the most profound scientists to have ever lived. Newton’s discoveries in physics, optics, and mathematics overturned a variety of…

  • About Knowledge

    “As to you, Life, I reckon you are the leavings of many deaths, No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before.” “Leaves of Grass” by Walt Whitman Justified true belief…..does it matter what knowledge could exist in or about knowing that all knowledge exists out there somewhere and that you only have to…

  • Vacationing On Vancouver Island

    [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ErcPOC5adQ%5D  Along the beach in Parksville there was a sand sculpture contest going on. Here is a video of the sculptures and how they were being made. They all  looked pretty neat. Here are some pictures I took of the finished product  below. My wife and I are vacationing right now and are staying…