Tag Archives: Neutrinos

Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay

Posted on March 19, 2010 by PlatoHagel

“You don’t see what you’re seeing until you see it,” Dr. Thurston said, “but when you do see it, it lets you see many other things.Elusive Proof, Elusive Prover: A New Mathematical Mystery The Enriched Xenon Observatory is an experiment … Continue reading →

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Mysterious Behavior of Neutrinos sent Straight through the Earth

Posted on December 24, 2009 by PlatoHagel

This rendering depicts the future NOvA detector facility on the property. Rendering by Holabird & Root. The NOνA experiment, a collaboration of over 180 scientists from some 28 institutions, will be the world’s most advanced neutrino experiment. NOvA physicists will … Continue reading →

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SuperCDMS An Improvement on Detection

Posted on December 14, 2009 by PlatoHagel

So far no WIMP interaction has been observed, so the sensitivity needs to be improved further. This will be achieved by increasing the total detector mass (and with this the probability that a WIMP interacts in the detector) and at … 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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Permanence of Fact in Literature

Posted on January 29, 2009 by PlatoHagel

John Updike in 1955. John Hoyer Updike (18 March 1932 – 27 January 2009) was an American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic. Updike’s most famous work is his Rabbit series (Rabbit, Run; Rabbit Redux; Rabbit … Continue reading →

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Spherical Cows

Posted on August 27, 2008 by PlatoHagel

Cartoon Model of a SNR(Supernova Remnants) When scientists refer to a spherical cow, we are poking fun at ourselves. We are admitting that some of our models or descriptions of things are far more simple than the actual object, like … Continue reading →

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The Plane of Simultaneity

Posted on May 29, 2008 by PlatoHagel

This blog entry was constructed to reply to the conversation that is going on in the issue of the “Block Universe.” See: Penrose and Quanglement Entanglement and the New Physics In the past, teleportation has only been possible with particles … Continue reading →

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Galactic Neutrino Communications

Posted on May 22, 2008 by PlatoHagel

Galactic Neutrino Communication by John G. Learned, Sandip Pakvasa, A. Zee We examine the possibility to employ neutrinos to communicate within the galaxy. We discuss various issues associated with transmission and reception, and suggest that the resonant neutrino energy near … Continue reading →

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Geoneutrinos

Posted on April 23, 2007 by PlatoHagel

Geoneutrinos, anti-electron neutrinos emanating from the earth, are expected to serve as a unique window into the interior of our planet, revealing information that is hidden from other probes. The left half of this image shows the production distribution for … Continue reading →

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The CrossOver Point within the Perfect Fluid?

Posted on April 12, 2007 by PlatoHagel

I had been following this research because of what I had been trying to understand when we take our understanding down to a certain level. That level is within the context of us probing the collision process for evidence of … Continue reading →

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