Category Archives: StarShine

13.7 Billion Years(Gamma Ray Burst)

Posted on September 20, 2011 by PlatoHagel

A gamma-ray burst detected by NASA’s Swift satellite in April 2009 has been newly unveiled as a candidate for the most distant object in the universe. In this video, former Penn State University graduate student Antonino Cucchiara discusses this research … Continue reading →

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Lost in Translation

Posted on January 7, 2009 by PlatoHagel

Photo Credit: NASA Supernova Remnant Turns 400Four hundred years ago, sky watchers, including the famous astronomer Johannes Kepler, were startled by the sudden appearance of a “new star” in the western sky, rivaling the brilliance of the nearby planets. Now, … Continue reading →

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The Radius of the Little Circle

Posted on October 23, 2006 by PlatoHagel

Where a dictionary proceeds in a circular manner, defining a word by reference to another, the basic concepts of mathematics are infinitely closer to an indecomposable element”, a kind of elementary particle” of thought with a minimal amount of ambiguity … Continue reading →

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The History of "Star Shine to Now"

Posted on October 21, 2006 by PlatoHagel

In “The String Saga of Star Shine” I gave a distant measure of how we might seen any event from that time to now. But before I begin I wanted to link Lubos’s mention of article from David G to … Continue reading →

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The String Saga of Star Shine?

Posted on October 20, 2006 by PlatoHagel

So lets say that the universe has always existed? Imagine approximately 13 billion years as a length of time measured? The Distant Gamma-Ray Burst GRB 050904. Image credit: ESO Mon, 12 Sep 2005 – An Italian team of astronomers have … Continue reading →

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