Tag Archives: Helioseismology

Image in form of the Biology of Belief

Posted on January 24, 2016 by PlatoHagel

With the geometric way, one is thinking in terms of pictures; pictures which one imagines in space in some way, and one just tries to get a feeling for the relationships between the quantities occurring in those pictures. Paul Dirac … Continue reading →

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Particles in Peace

Posted on September 28, 2014 by PlatoHagel

This was in May of 2013. Yaron Herman plays piano jazz that is utterly unique. He learned to play based on a method using math and philosophy. Bijan Chemirani, French-born percussionist, was initiated into the art of Iranian percussion by … Continue reading →

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Puffing in Large Scale Interactions

Posted on June 29, 2014 by PlatoHagel

This combination of three wavelengths of light from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory shows one of the multiple jets that led to a series of slow coronal puffs on Jan. 17, 2013. The light has been colorized in red, green and … Continue reading →

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Multiverse or Universe? – Andre Linde (SETI Talks)

Posted on April 15, 2014 by PlatoHagel

Published on Jan 1, 2013 SETI Talks archive: http://seti.org/talks Cosmological observations show that the universe is very uniform on the maximally large scale accessible to our telescopes, and the same laws of physics operate in all of its parts that … Continue reading →

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The Map of B Mode Imprints

Posted on April 10, 2014 by PlatoHagel

Figure 3: Left: BICEP2 apodized E-mode and B-mode maps filtered to 50 < ℓ < 120. Right: The equivalent maps for the first of the lensed-ΛCDM+noise simulations. The color scale displays the E-mode scalar and B-mode pseudoscalar patterns while the lines display the equivalent … Continue reading →

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We’ve Come a Long Way

Posted on March 17, 2014 by PlatoHagel

In 2003 the WMAP craft measured the very small fluctuations – about one part in 100,000 – in the temperature of the cosmic background radiation (coloured regions). These fluctuations, which are in excellent agreement with the predictions of Big Bang … Continue reading →

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BICEP2 Observatory in Antarctica

Posted on March 17, 2014 by PlatoHagel

Cosmic searches at the South Pole. The BICEP-2 Telescope is the up-facing dish at right. The larger white dish is the South Pole Telescope (SPT), and the building is the Dark Sector Laboratory. Both experiments observe in the millimeter-submillimeter part … Continue reading →

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Helioseismology and Gravitational Waves

Posted on January 30, 2014 by PlatoHagel

The universe is expected to be permeated by a stochastic background of gravitational radiation of astrophysical and cosmological origin. This background is capable of exciting oscillations in solar-like stars. Here we show that solar-like oscillators can be employed as giant … Continue reading →

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The Universe of Sound: Bill Fontana – Collide@CERN Artist

Posted on July 15, 2013 by PlatoHagel

Bill Fontana is a renowned American sound sculptor who studied with John Cage and is the 2012-2013 Prix Ars Electronica Collide@CERN winner. He began his 2-month residency at CERN with an event entitled “The Universe of Sound” on 4 July … Continue reading →

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NASA | First X-Class Solar Flares of 2013

Posted on July 4, 2013 by PlatoHagel

Published on May 13, 2013 On May 12-13 the sun erupted with an X1.7-class and an X2.8-class flare as well as two coronal mass ejections, or CMEs, off the upper left side of the sun. Solar material also danced and … Continue reading →

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