Author Archives: PlatoHagel

Snow Angel

Posted on December 18, 2011 by PlatoHagel

Object Names: S106, Sh2-106, Sharpless 2-106Image Type: Astronomical/Illustration Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA) December 15, 2011: The bipolar star-forming region, called Sharpless 2-106, or S106 for short, looks like a soaring, celestial snow angel. The outstretched … Continue reading →

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Keeping Research Exciting

Posted on December 16, 2011 by PlatoHagel

Dialogos of Eide

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Comet LoveJoy

Posted on December 16, 2011 by PlatoHagel

Comet Lovejoy seen by SOHO “On average, new Kreutz-group comets are discovered every few days by SOHO, but from the ground they are much rarer to see or discover,” says Karl Battams, Naval Research Laboratory, who curates the Sun-grazing comets … Continue reading →

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Explanation on Quantum Gravity in a Nutshell

Posted on December 14, 2011 by PlatoHagel

Although Aristotle in general had a more empirical and experimental attitude than Plato, modern science did not come into its own until Plato’s Pythagorean confidence in the mathematical nature of the world returned with Kepler, Galileo, and Newton. For instance, … Continue reading →

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Higgs Update Today

Posted on December 13, 2011 by PlatoHagel

Backgrounder: Guido Tonelli(CMS spokesperson) Higgs update English 1404258 Fabiola Gianotti (ATLAS spokesperson) Higgs update English 1403055 Heuer with Gianotti and Tonelli See: Higgs Update Today: Inconclusive, As Expected Firm Evidence Of A Higgs Boson At Last! See Also: Possible Hints … Continue reading →

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Tools For Cern Public Annoucement

Posted on December 9, 2011 by PlatoHagel

CERN PUBLIC SEMINAR  Tuesday, December 13, 2011 from 14:00 to 16:00 (Europe/Zurich) at CERN ( Main Auditorium ) Tuesday, December 13, 2011 14:00 – 14:30 Update on the Standard Model Higgs searches in ATLAS 30′ Speaker: Fabiola Gianotti 14:30 – … Continue reading →

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Kepler-22b

Posted on December 9, 2011 by PlatoHagel

Images credit: NASA/Ames/JPL-Caltech This image is an artist’s conception of planet Kepler-22b, a planet known to comfortably circle in the habitable zone of a sun-like star. It is the first planet that NASA’s Kepler mission has confirmed to orbit in … Continue reading →

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Bolshoi Simulation: WMAP Explorer

Posted on December 9, 2011 by PlatoHagel

Bolshoi Simulation Visualization from UC-HPACC on Vimeo. Watch With Music.   Visualization of the dark matter in 1/1000 of the gigantic Bolshoi cosmological simulation, zooming in on a region centered on the dark matter halo of a very large cluster … Continue reading →

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Gordon Kane Post on Reference Frame

Posted on December 8, 2011 by PlatoHagel

Fig.3 Revisionist History and String Theory and the Real World See: “Learning from theory and data about our string vacuum” *** Also for viewing: NAS Produces Animations of Dark Matter for Planetarium Shows *** The newly-installed Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer-2 (AMS) … Continue reading →

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Apex Experiment

Posted on December 7, 2011 by PlatoHagel

APEX is one of several experiments hunting for the carrier of a new force, a hypothetical boson dubbed A’. This graph shows the range of the parameter space covered by these proposed experiments. The solid red is the slice of … Continue reading →

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