Category Archives: Oh My God Particle

Higg’s Boson: Analogies Help

Posted on July 4, 2012 by PlatoHagel

John Ellis,theoretical physicist, answers the question “What is the Higgs boson?” in preparation for the press conference following the seminar on LHC 2012 results on the Higgs boson search, due on July 4 2012 at CERN. For more details: http://cern.ch/press/PressReleases/Releases2012/PR16.12E.html … Continue reading →

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Oh My God Particles

Posted on June 13, 2011 by PlatoHagel

“The soul is awestruck and shudders at the sight of the beautiful.” Plato Leon Max Lederman (born July 15, 1922) is an American experimental physicist and Nobel Prize in Physics laureate for his work with neutrinos. He is Director Emeritus … Continue reading →

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Leon Lederman and Starting Out

Posted on October 27, 2009 by PlatoHagel

“The soul is awestruck and shudders at the sight of the beautiful.” Plato Leon Max Lederman (born July 15, 1922) is an American experimental physicist and Nobel Prize in Physics laureate for his work with neutrinos. He is Director Emeritus … Continue reading →

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Bringing the Heavens Down to Earth

Posted on February 3, 2009 by PlatoHagel

“We all are of the citizens of the Sky” Camille Flammarion The Flammarion woodcut. Flammarion’s caption translates to “A medieval missionary tells that he has found the point where heaven and Earth meet…” The widely circulated woodcut of a man … Continue reading →

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Akeno Giant Air Shower Array (AGASA)

Posted on March 11, 2007 by PlatoHagel

A Quantum Gravity in the Lab a meeting held in regardsEcho: DDR as a Test Model was introduced by Bee of Backreaction. I thought it important that I give some background on what had transpired here to allow me to … Continue reading →

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The Blogging Experience

Posted on May 30, 2006 by PlatoHagel

Making “Hard copies” is always nice 🙂 I have spent roughly two years devoted to using the blogger format to bring information together and have shared some of the research I had been doing . Bring perspective to areas that … Continue reading →

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Increase in Output of Inverse Square Law Calculatons ?

Posted on March 15, 2006 by PlatoHagel

Oh my poor layman brain. It hurts. String theory and the crisis in particle physics by Bert Schroer The third point of the list is perhaps the most serious one. A theory which has in more than 30 years been … Continue reading →

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Getting Ducks in a Row

Posted on January 4, 2006 by PlatoHagel

Energising the quest for ‘big theory’ By Paul Rincon We are at a point where experiments must guide us, we cannot make progress without them,” explains Jim Virdee, a particle physicist at Imperial College London Good to see Joanne contributions … Continue reading →

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Oh My God Particle-Revisited

Posted on November 16, 2005 by PlatoHagel

I just wanted to drop this link here for now. The animation shows schematically the behavior of the gas molecules in the presence of a gravitational field. We can see in this figure that the concentration of molecules at the … Continue reading →

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Big Horn Medicine Wheel

Posted on August 19, 2005 by PlatoHagel

I’ll put a picture here from my trip(it is taken from the board located at the site). It’s the Bighorn Medicine Wheel located by Sheridan Wyoming. It is about 9642 feet up and on Medicine Mountain. The walk was about … Continue reading →

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