From Earth to Heaven

Heaven on Earth

T he Test Storage Ring (TSR) has been in operation at the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics for some 20 years now. It is a racetrack of sorts, with a 55-meter circumference, on which charged particles race around, guided by magnets. Compared with its big brothers, such as the new super-accelerator LHC at the European particle physics lab in Geneva, the TSR is quite modest. But by no mean...

"More things in heaven and earth".

consequences are distinguished by the fact that they are entities of such a sort that they can exist only as the fruits or products of corresponding performative acts. They are distinguished further by the fact that, like claims, obligations and other legal entities, they fall midway between Platonic objects, which lie outside the realm of time and change, and real objects of the causal flux. (...

From pigsties to hog heaven?

In the continuing transformation of U.S. agriculture, North Carolina finds itself on the front edge of change. Between 1989 and 1998, the number of hogs in the state's pork industry quintupled---and so has the amount of hog waste that must be disposed of. Now the state has engaged private and public resources in a rapid search for better ways for handling hog waste. A technology review panel ha...

Resonant Photon-Graviton Conversion in EM Fields: From Earth to Heaven

Between heaven and Earth: the exploration of Titan.

The atmosphere of Titan represents a bridge between the early solar nebula and atmospheres like ours. The low abundances of primordial noble gases in Titan's atmosphere relative to N2 suggest that the icy planetesimals that formed the satellite must have originated at temperatures higher than 75-100 K. Under these conditions, N2 would also be very poorly trapped and thus Titan's nitrogen, like ...