Author Archives: PlatoHagel

A Path With a Heart

Posted on May 7, 2012 by PlatoHagel

“All paths lead nowhere,so it is important to choose a path that has heart.”— Carlos Castenada Update: I am re-posting this article from 2006. I wanted to highlight this post in relation to the idea of intent. What it means … Continue reading →

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Experimental philosophy

Posted on May 5, 2012 by PlatoHagel

Experimental philosophy is an emerging field of philosophical inquiry[1][2][3][4][5] that makes use of empirical data—often gathered through surveys which probe the intuitions of ordinary people—in order to inform research on philosophical questions.[6][7] This use of empirical data is widely seen … Continue reading →

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Being Able to See

Posted on May 4, 2012 by PlatoHagel

How does one turn on the internal vision when we use our eyes to look at the day to day happenings with eyes wide open? What made this interesting for me was the fact that sensory examination could have been … Continue reading →

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The Ganzfeld effect

Posted on May 4, 2012 by PlatoHagel

The  Ganzfeld effect (from German for “complete field”) is a phenomenon of visual perception caused by staring at an undifferentiated and uniform field of color. The effect is described as the loss of vision as the brain cuts off the … Continue reading →

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A Superset Universe?

Posted on May 1, 2012 by PlatoHagel

How would you draw a Universe with all theories as being part of,  as a subset? Pictorial representations can be very useful in presenting information or assisting reasoning. Venn diagram is an example. Venn diagrams are used to represent classes … Continue reading →

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Particle Constructs

Posted on April 27, 2012 by PlatoHagel

Several large experimental groups are hot on the trail of this elusive subatomic particle which is thought to explain the origins of particle mass.  Higgs Update Today What use the Higg’s Mechanism? Just as one might look at GRB examples … Continue reading →

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Infographics: Magnifying the Universe

Posted on April 27, 2012 by PlatoHagel

I thought this kind of neat and wondered…..maybe a scientist could correct if any misrepresentation is evident in the following demonstration. The Universe made possible by Number Sleuth Dialogos of Eide

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Brian Greene: Why is our universe fine-tuned for life?

Posted on April 25, 2012 by PlatoHagel

At the heart of modern cosmology is a mystery: Why does our universe appear so exquisitely tuned to create the conditions necessary for life? In this tour de force tour of some of science’s biggest new discoveries, Brian Greene shows … Continue reading →

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Do Gamma rays hint at dark matter?

Posted on April 25, 2012 by PlatoHagel

Using a new statistical technique to analyse publicly available data from NASA’s Fermi Space Telescope, an astrophysicist in Germany says he may have spotted a tell-tale sign of exotic particles annihilating within the Milky Way. If proved to be real, … Continue reading →

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What Does the Higgs Jet Energy Sound Like?

Posted on April 24, 2012 by PlatoHagel

Top quark and anti top quark pair decaying into jets, visible as collimated collections of particle tracks, and other fermions in the CDF detector at Tevatron. HiggsJetEnergyProfileCrotale  and HiggsJetEnergyProfilePiano use only the energy of the cells in the jet to … Continue reading →

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