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  • Crab Nebula

    This is a mosaic image, one of the largest ever taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope of the Crab Nebula, a six-light-year-wide expanding remnant of a star’s supernova explosion. Japanese and Chinese astronomers recorded this violent event nearly 1,000 years ago in 1054, as did, almost certainly, Native Americans. The orange filaments are the tattered…

  • Fermi Records Lighthouse Effect

    John Keats talked of “unweaving the rainbow”, suggesting that Newton destroyed the beauty of nature by analysing light with a prism and splitting it into different colours. Keats was being a prat. Physicists also smile when we see rainbows, but our emotional reaction is doubled by our understanding of the deep physics relating to the…

  • Birth By Approximization

    Of course I am acknowledging the universe in a big way here, “that by measure,” we can arrive at “some ideas” about the nature of this universe. Fundamental constants acknowledged. This post was to raise awareness of the “idea about noise that can be created by people,” layman like myself, as to questions we can…

  • Plato and Justice

    A just society must be governed by men of reason.Inventing a new social myth to replace the old. Socrates calls those who rule for the benefit of the whole society and not to it’s detriment golden men: in his myth they rightfully govern the men of silver and bronze. This is the myth of metals(415a…

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

    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 to become the friend of God and be immortal, if mortal man may. Would that…

  • Calorimetric Views

    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 to become the friend of God and be immortal, if mortal man may. Would that…

  • Time as a Measure

    SuperCosmologists Think Out of the Box, by Clifford at 1:13 am, August 3rd, 2005 From what we have learned so far about string theory, the natural starting point for doing physics which makes contact with our world seems to be to start in 9+1 dimensional spacetime. A modern perspective tells us to go further: Strings…

  • Graviton in a Can?

    After you consume “graviton in a can,” you might never be the same? Brane thinking may then dominate your every view of the world. Then, it will all make sense? Imagine while we peer deeper into the subject of the “perfect fluid/soup” we find that certain aspects of the reductionist work done, has indeed lead…

  • The Cosmic Connection to Climate

    Cars and industrial activity contribute to the 7 gigatons of carbon dioxide released each year into the atmosphere.Credits: EuroNews Some thoughts about this were being contemplates as I was slowly awaking this morning. I was actually thinking of one more image about seeing Gr being measured by how Grace is looking at and being used…

  • Back to the Beginning of Time

    While some of us who had been engaged in a little prehistory examination of earliest QGP states as glast determination of high energy photons, the question, “to Be or not to be,” how could we not ask what Professor Susskind offered up for examination under the title, “the elephant and the event horizon?” What happens…

  • Monster of the Milky Way

    Lubos Motl, it does not have to be “ten billion souls” that we find of just one the same. How many scientists do you know that refer to Plato? If enough is captured as “part of the original,” then why not a view of what was the attempt to descibe “the very complex” of what…