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  • SNOLAB Grand Opening

    [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pY6Eobr3Y8&w=560&h=360%5D [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgjvsxSUA44&w=560&h=360%5D Dialogos of Eide

  • Particle Dark Matter

    Looks interesting. Dark matter is among the most important open problems in modern physics. Aimed at graduate students and researchers, this book describes the theoretical and experimental aspects of the dark matter problem in particle physics, astrophysics and cosmology. Featuring contributions from 48 leading theorists and experimentalists, it presents many aspects, from astrophysical observations to…

  • NASA’s Fermi Spots ‘Superflares’ in the Crab Nebula

    [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qV2yGxNL1Zw&w=560&h=315%5D The famous Crab Nebula supernova remnant has erupted in an enormous flare five times more powerful than any previously seen from the object. The outburst was first detected by NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope on April 12 and lasted six days. The nebula, which is the wreckage of an exploded star whose light…

  • Antimatter

    Don Lincoln Explains Antimatter | NOVA’s Nature of Realitybrought to you by Livescribe See: Antimatter 101 Don Lincoln Explains Antimatter | NOVA’s Nature of Realitybrought to you by Livescribe Dialogos of Eide

  • Euler Diagram

    This article is about Eulerian circles of set theory and logic. For the geometric Euler circle, see Nine-point circle. An Euler diagram illustrating that the set of “animals with four legs” is a subset of “animals”, but the set of “minerals” is disjoint (has no members in common) with “animals”. An Euler diagram is a…

  • Where is LHC Headed?

    [vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/41159579 w=497&h=298] The speakers are: Michael Peskin (author of the famous QFT textbook) Nima Arkani-Hamed, Riccardo Rattazzi, Gavin Salam, Matt Strassler and Raman Sundrum (or Randall-Sundrum fame). Dialogos of Eide

  • Illusions of Grandeur?

    Illusions of Gravity Three spatial dimensions are visible all around us–up/down, left/right, forward/backward. Add time to the mix, and the result is a four-dimensional blending of space and time known as spacetime. Thus, we live in a four-dimensional universe. Or do we? Amazingly, some new theories of physics predict that one of the three dimensions…

  • Questions on the History of Mathematics

    Arthur MillerEinstein and Schrödinger never fully accepted the highly abstract nature of Heisenberg’s quantum mechanics, says Miller. They agreed with Galileo’s assertion that “the book of nature is written in mathematics”, but they also realized the power of using visual imagery to represent mathematical symbols. For most people I am sure it is of little…

  • The Birth of String Theory

    The Birth of String Theory Edited by: Andrea Cappelli, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Florence Edited by: Elena Castellani, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy Edited by: Filippo Colomo, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Florence Edited by: Paolo Di Vecchia, Niels Bohr Institutet, Copenhagen and Nordita, Stockholm Dialogos of Eide

  • A Path With a Heart

    “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 to me.  I wanted as well to show the need for, to be enable conventionality…

  • Experimental philosophy

    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 as opposed to a philosophical methodology that relies mainly on a priori justification, sometimes called…