Tag Archives: Calorimeters

Probing the early and present Universe with Planck

Posted on July 20, 2010 by PlatoHagel

Date: 05 Jul 2010Satellite: PlanckCopyright: ESA, HFI and LFI consortia  This multi-colour all-sky image of the microwave sky has been synthesized using data spanning the full frequency range of Planck, which covers the electromagnetic spectrum from 30 to 857 GHz. … Continue reading →

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Calorimetric Equivalence Principle Test

Posted on February 23, 2010 by PlatoHagel

With Stefan shutting down the blog temporary I thought to gather my thoughts here. Gravitomagnetism This approximate reformulation of gravitation as described by general relativity makes a “fictitious force” appear in a frame of reference different from a moving, gravitating … Continue reading →

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Fermi Records Lighthouse Effect

Posted on October 29, 2009 by PlatoHagel

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 … Continue reading →

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Nature’s Experiment on the Meaning of Weight

Posted on September 11, 2008 by PlatoHagel

“Dyson, one of the most highly-regarded scientists of his time, poignantly informed the young man that his findings into the distribution of prime numbers corresponded with the spacing and distribution of energy levels of a higher-ordered quantum state.” Mathematics Problem … Continue reading →

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A New Culture?

Posted on September 7, 2008 by PlatoHagel

Let us say there is a “new rewiring” that goes on in one’s brain. That the divisions and lines we perpetrate on the senses, sees colour and sound taking on a “new feature” in the explanation of the world around … Continue reading →

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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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Gran Sasso and the Pyramid

Posted on July 27, 2008 by PlatoHagel

What good is a universe without somebody around to look at it?Robert Dicke This summer, CERN gave the starting signal for the long-distance neutrino race to Italy. The CNGS facility (CERN Neutrinos to Gran Sasso), embedded in the laboratory’s accelerator … Continue reading →

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Calorimetric Views

Posted on April 14, 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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Time as a Measure

Posted on March 29, 2007 by PlatoHagel

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 … Continue reading →

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A new LHC experiment is born!

Posted on October 18, 2006 by PlatoHagel

<a href="http://bulletin.cern.ch/eng/earticles.php?bullno=42/2006&base=art#Article1&quot; traget=_BLank title="A new LHC experiment is born! Cern Buletin-Issue No.42/2006 Mon 16th October 2006″> The LHC experiments are mostly on a very grand scale, with huge detectors and collaborations of as many as 2000 people; however, LHCf, like … Continue reading →

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