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Kepler-22b

Posted on December 9, 2011 by PlatoHagel

Images credit: NASA/Ames/JPL-Caltech This image is an artist’s conception of planet Kepler-22b, a planet known to comfortably circle in the habitable zone of a sun-like star. It is the first planet that NASA’s Kepler mission has confirmed to orbit in … Continue reading →

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Magic Cerenkov Telescope

Posted on December 4, 2011 by PlatoHagel

MAGIC (Major Atmospheric Gamma-ray Imaging Cherenkov Telescopes) is a system of two Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes situated at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory on La Palma, one of the Canary Islands, at about 2200 m above sea level. MAGIC … Continue reading →

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Bird Man?

Posted on December 3, 2011 by PlatoHagel

Amazing flying for Jetman. Yves Rossy: That’s really the goal, because if you put [in] steering, then you reinvent the airplane. And I wanted to keep this freedom of movement. And it’s really like the kid playing the airplane. I … Continue reading →

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Intensity Frontier Workshop and Space Exploration

Posted on December 1, 2011 by PlatoHagel

This workshop is an opportunity for the scientific community to identify the physics potential of the Intensity Frontier. Starting in September 2011, six working groups will study and begin to document the full spectrum of opportunities for fundamental physics at … Continue reading →

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Feynman: Probability and Uncertainty in Quantum Mechanics

Posted on November 28, 2011 by PlatoHagel

Richard Feynman courtesy of the Cornell Messenger Lecture Archive. Cornell Mathematics Library. Lecture #6 Probability and Uncertainty in quantum mechanics. See Also:  Feynman on QM in 1964 It is nice to see particulate expression from this point of view as … Continue reading →

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Culture jamming

Posted on November 18, 2011 by PlatoHagel

See: Culture Jamming *** Culture jamming, coined in 1984,[1][2][3] denotes a tactic used by many anti-consumerist social movements[4] to disrupt or subvert mainstream cultural institutions, including corporate advertising. Guerrilla semiotics and night discourse are sometimes used synonymously with the term … Continue reading →

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Justin Hall-Tipping: Freeing energy from the grid

Posted on November 1, 2011 by PlatoHagel

The grid of tomorrow is no grid, and energy, clean efficient energy, will one day be free. If you do this, you get the last puzzle piece, which is water. Each of us, every day, need just eight glasses of … Continue reading →

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TRIUMF Dragon

Posted on October 27, 2011 by PlatoHagel

ISAC and DRAGON, the Detector of Recoils And Gammas Of Nuclear reactions TRIUMF has long been addressing big questions about the origins of matter in our universe by studying the interactions among elementary particles or essential nuclei.  The DRAGON experiment … Continue reading →

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Aaron O’Connell: Making sense of a visible quantum object

Posted on October 19, 2011 by PlatoHagel

And so that’s what we did. We turned off the lights, and then we put it in a vacuum and sucked out all the air, and then we cooled it down to just a fraction of a degree above absolute … Continue reading →

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Messier 8

Posted on July 11, 2011 by PlatoHagel

Seen through small telescopes and binoculars as a fuzzy glow, M8 is a region of intense star formation with a characteristic pink hue from ionized hydrogen (Balmer H-α recombination line). While red is indeed the hydrogen emission in this image … Continue reading →

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