Author Archives: PlatoHagel

Songs of the Stars: the Real Music of the Spheres

Posted on April 24, 2012 by PlatoHagel

With the discovery of sound waves in the CMB, we have entered a new era of precision cosmology in which we can begin to talk with certainty about the origin of structure and the content of matter and energy in … Continue reading →

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Near-Future Photon-Collider Setups

Posted on April 23, 2012 by PlatoHagel

In the search for a quantum theory of gravity it is crucial to find experimental access to quantum gravitational effects. Since these are expected to be very small at observationally accessible scales it is advantageous to consider processes with no … Continue reading →

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A Musical Score on Particles?

Posted on April 23, 2012 by PlatoHagel

Schema created by Vicinanza with an example bubble chamber particle track, which has been converted into a melody and then orchestrated as music. Image courtesy Domenico Vicinanza. Positrons – antiparticles of electrons, a trillionth of a meter in size – … Continue reading →

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Lagrangian Worlds

Posted on April 21, 2012 by PlatoHagel

Diagram of the Lagrange Point gravitational forces associated with the Sun-Earth system. In a certain sense a perfect fluid is a generalization of a point particle. This leads to the question as to what is the corresponding generalization for extended … Continue reading →

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A Blue Flash in Ice

Posted on April 21, 2012 by PlatoHagel

Little is known about the ultra high-energy cosmic rays that regularly penetrate the atmosphere. Recent IceCube research rules out the leading theory that they come from gamma ray bursts. (Credit: NSF/J. Yang) Future directions  The lack of observation of neutrinos … Continue reading →

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A Message from the Past?

Posted on April 20, 2012 by PlatoHagel

The ATLAS Experiment offers the exciting possibility to study them in the lab (if they exist). The simulated collision event shown is viewed along the beampipe. The event is one in which a microscopic-black-hole was produced in the collision of … Continue reading →

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Model Building in Life

Posted on April 20, 2012 by PlatoHagel

“…underwriting the form languages of ever more domains of mathematics is a set of deep patterns which not only offer access to a kind of ideality that Plato claimed to see the universe as created with in the Timaeus; more … Continue reading →

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BroadBand Portals of the OECD

Posted on April 17, 2012 by PlatoHagel

Tim Berners-Lee, Director of the World Wide Web Consortium and inventor of the World Wide Web, talks about the challenges ahead and why an open Internet is key to its continuing success *** The OECD broadband portal provides access to … Continue reading →

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THE FLASH-LAG EFFECT: AN OVERVIEW

Posted on April 17, 2012 by PlatoHagel

Are we Living in the Past? (Please note: this page is not currently maintained, and has not been updated since 2002) The flash-lag effect is a visual illusion wherein a flash and a moving object that appear in the same location … Continue reading →

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Exploring Subtle Levels of Consciouness

Posted on April 16, 2012 by PlatoHagel

 In 2004 I struggled to define the mapping…while speaking in terms of Kaluza/Klein and fifth dimension. Today I am fully aware of the mathematically representation in terms of the use of dimensions.  At the time this was related to spirit.  … Continue reading →

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