Category Archives: dark energy

Lighting up the dark universe

Posted on July 30, 2010 by PlatoHagel

The CHASE detector. The end of the magnet (orange) can be seen on the right. Exploring our dark universe is often the domain of extreme physics. Traces of dark matter particles are searched for by huge neutrino telescopes located underwater … Continue reading →

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There Be Dragons on the Dark Matter Issue?

Posted on May 26, 2010 by PlatoHagel

 I have been intrigued by the comparison of the latest reporting by Bee of Backreaction at a workshop at Perimeter Institute about the Laws of Nature: Their Nature and Knowability. Bee writes, “Yesterday, we had a talk by Marcelo Gleiser … Continue reading →

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SuperCDMS An Improvement on Detection

Posted on December 14, 2009 by PlatoHagel

So far no WIMP interaction has been observed, so the sensitivity needs to be improved further. This will be achieved by increasing the total detector mass (and with this the probability that a WIMP interacts in the detector) and at … Continue reading →

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Sounding Off on the Dark Matter Issue

Posted on December 13, 2009 by PlatoHagel

Fermilab If dark matter can pull gravitationally, it has mass So here is an article of 2006 with some interesting information. Now these experimental procedures are always interesting to me because of the type of detectors that were dreamt up … Continue reading →

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One Small step…….for Mankind

Posted on June 26, 2009 by PlatoHagel

It should read…Humankind. Lee Smolin: “Here is a metaphor due to Eric Weinstein that I would have put in the book had I heard it before. Let us take a different twist on the landscape of theories and consider the … Continue reading →

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Acrobate Within every Point of Space

Posted on September 15, 2008 by PlatoHagel

Cold Spots One would have to know that “expansionist values” for the blackholes temperature, to know, that in a “gravitational collapse” heat is generated, and thusly, the geometrical propensity to certain K values would be “indicative” on a classical level? … Continue reading →

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Our Consciousness can "Contain the Future?"

Posted on May 25, 2008 by PlatoHagel

I just happen to visit Cosmic Variance yesterday after not visiting for some time. The timing seemed appropriate to my questions about our histories, not only from a detailed research perspective, but from a personal one as well in terms … Continue reading →

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Dark Energy: Beyond Einstein Missions

Posted on March 24, 2008 by PlatoHagel

Adept Charles L. Bennett “ADEPT will measure these supernovae, but its real advance lies in a new, more powerful technique. Patterns in temperature of the very young universe provide a ‘standard ruler’ that is imprinted on the pattern of galaxies … Continue reading →

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"Lego Block" Galaxies in Early Universe

Posted on December 31, 2007 by PlatoHagel

Witten: One thing I can tell you, though, is that most string theorist’s suspect that spacetime is a emergent Phenomena in the language of condensed matter physics. n this image of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, several objects are identified … Continue reading →

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Dark Matter Issue

Posted on November 5, 2007 by PlatoHagel

We’re faced with the same choices today, with galaxies and clusters playing the role of the Solar System. Except that the question has basically been answered, by observations such as the Bullet Cluster. If you modify gravity, it’s fairly straightforward … Continue reading →

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