Category Archives: Fermi

Glast now Known as "Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope"

Posted on August 28, 2008 by PlatoHagel

BEHOLDING beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not images of beauty, but realities, for he has hold not of an image but of a reality, and bringing forth and nourishing true virtue … Continue reading →

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Bullet Cluster

Posted on December 21, 2007 by PlatoHagel

A purple haze shows dark matter flanking the “Bullet Cluster.” Image Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/M.Markevitch et al. Optical: NASA/STScI; Magellan/U.Arizona/D.Clowe et al. Lensing Map: NASA/STScI; ESO WFI; Magellan/U.Arizona/D.Clowe et al The amount of matter, or “mass,” in a galaxy is made … Continue reading →

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Radiactive Decay

Posted on January 20, 2007 by PlatoHagel

Unit Circle Complex numbers can be identified with points in the Euclidean plane, namely the number a + bi is identified with the point (a, b). Under this identification, the unit circle is a group under multiplication, called the circle … Continue reading →

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Purpose of the Compton Lecture Series

Posted on April 20, 2006 by PlatoHagel

April 8The 63rd Compton Lecture Series, 2006 through June 3, 2006, 11:00 a.m. Sean at cosmic variance point to this series of lectures that are being presented each year and in this series the entitled is called, “String Theory: With … Continue reading →

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Pierre Auger Observatory

Posted on April 9, 2005 by PlatoHagel

In his excellent paper, Louis LePrince-Ringuet, citing a remark of Powell’s at the Conference of Bagneres-de-Bigorre in 1953, declared that from that date on, particle accelerators took the place of cosmic rays, which more or less faded into the background. … Continue reading →

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Civilizations Within the Cosmo

Posted on January 31, 2005 by PlatoHagel

In the recent article ‘Conflict between anthropic reasoning and observation’ (gr-qc/0303070) Ken D. Olum, using some inflation-based ideas and the anthropic premise that we should be typical among all intelligent observers in the Universe, arrives at the puzzling conclusion that … Continue reading →

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