Author Archives: PlatoHagel

Different Environment for Testing

Posted on January 14, 2012 by PlatoHagel

Dialogos of Eide

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The Smoking Gun

Posted on January 14, 2012 by PlatoHagel

One string theorist even went so far to conclude that a string theory calculation of Kaluza-Klein modes was the “smoking gun” that proved our theory was the same as the string theory that string theorists had already been studying.Warped Passages: … Continue reading →

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Cross Pollination Works

Posted on January 13, 2012 by PlatoHagel

“You really never know where your next great idea is going to come from.” Michelle Borkin of Harvard University combines astronomy and medical imaging to advance both fields and proves that interdisciplinary collaboration helps people develop great ideas otherwise undiscovered  … Continue reading →

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The Nobel Prize in Physics 1914 Max von Laue

Posted on January 11, 2012 by PlatoHagel

Laue diagram of a crystal  See: Experimental diffraction The Laue method in transmission mode The Laue method in reflection mode There are two different geometries in the Laue method, depending on the crystal position with regard to the photographic plate: … Continue reading →

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The Belle B Factory Experiment

Posted on January 11, 2012 by PlatoHagel

Existing standard hadrons and exotic hadrons. At the B Factory experiment, a series of new exotic mesons containing charm quarks (c) have been discovered. Unlike these exotic mesons, the newly discovered Zb particles contain bottom quarks (b) and have an … Continue reading →

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Loci: A Gallery of Ray Tracing for Geometers

Posted on January 9, 2012 by PlatoHagel

The crystalline state is the simplest known example of a quantum , a stable state of matter whose generic low-energy properties are determined by a higher organizing principle and nothing else. Robert Laughlin Figure 10 with linked animation: Five-fold rotational … Continue reading →

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Control the Medium, You Control the Product?

Posted on January 6, 2012 by PlatoHagel

The historical record, as I’ve also argued, is also quite unequivocal on the folly of allowing those who own the medium to control the message See: The Vertical Integration Elephant in the Room  For differing points of view some might … Continue reading →

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Crystal Structure

Posted on January 5, 2012 by PlatoHagel

In mineralogy and crystallography, crystal structure is a unique arrangement of atoms or molecules in a crystalline liquid or solid. A crystal structure is composed of a pattern, a set of atoms arranged in a particular way, and a lattice … Continue reading →

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Quasicrystal: Prof. Dan Shechtman

Posted on January 4, 2012 by PlatoHagel

A quasiperiodic crystal, or, in short, quasicrystal, is a structure that is ordered but not periodic. A quasicrystalline pattern can continuously fill all available space, but it lacks translational symmetry. While crystals, according to the classical crystallographic restriction theorem, can … Continue reading →

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The Lived Past and the Anticipated Future.

Posted on January 4, 2012 by PlatoHagel

the autobiographical self has prompted extended memory, reasoning, imagination, creativity and language. And out of that came the instruments of culture — religions, justice, trade, the arts, science, technology. And it is within that culture that we really can get … Continue reading →

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