Category Archives: astrophysics

Cosmic Rays Collisions and Strangelets Produced?

Posted on January 28, 2006 by PlatoHagel

I like to think of Enlightenment in another way Jaffe:) While we had focused our attention on the airs about the earth, how would it been possible for us earthlings to push back the limitations on on our views that … Continue reading →

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Spacetime 101

Posted on January 24, 2006 by PlatoHagel

Here’s some basic background covering how mathematical models of space and time have evolved since ancient times, from the Pythagorean Rule to Newtonian mechanics, Special Relativity and General Relativity. For the roads leading to one’s view of the strange world … Continue reading →

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Accretion Disks

Posted on January 11, 2006 by PlatoHagel

“For everyone, as I think, must see that astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.” Plato Lubos Motl: One of the potentially far-reaching consequences of Eva’s and Gary’s paper is that they … Continue reading →

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Kilometric Radiation?

Posted on July 26, 2005 by PlatoHagel

So we use physics in ways to change the way we see? Here are some examles from the Cassini Project and Wikipedia. Cassini Plasma Spectrometer (CAPS) The Cassini Plasma Spectrometer (CAPS) is a direct sensing instrument that measures the energy … Continue reading →

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Collision course creates microscopic ‘black holes’

Posted on April 13, 2005 by PlatoHagel

Physics At The End Of The Galactic Cosmic Ray Spectrum will take place in Aspen, Colorado at the Aspen Center for Physics from April 26 to 30, 2005. Sean Carroll: Among other responses to the post about fundamental physics in … Continue reading →

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CERN and Future Experiments

Posted on April 4, 2005 by PlatoHagel

I needed to come back down to earth for a minute to see where the trend is going with those who shall lead us poor earthlings into the future of experimental research and profound understandings. It would be nice to … Continue reading →

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Breathing New Life into Existance

Posted on January 16, 2005 by PlatoHagel

Of course there is always caution that must be exercised, so I went looking for a discription of what might be extolled as the following in thread as examples? A black hole in astrophysics often has two distinct meanings. The … Continue reading →

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Education, Now Stimulates Creativity:-)

Posted on January 13, 2005 by PlatoHagel

The nice thing about good educators is the resource that they can help point lay people to to encourage exploration and thought provocation. It is not to nice to have controls place on the the ability of resource searchers to … Continue reading →

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