3 days ago

Part I of this series on the prototype “musical shooter” Planck v.0 dealt with how we try to interpret musical events on a granular level with quantization: the timing of discreet events, such as individual rhythmic hits, as they relate to gameplay. There’s more to music than that, of course, and th ...

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4 days ago by microondas

Named for Max Planck (1858–1947), the German scientist who originated quantum theory, the Planck craft will sit between Earth and the sun and scan the entire sky in long, circular strips. Its mission is to detect tiny, potentially telling temperature variations within the cosmic microwave background ...

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9 days ago by Lovendal

Pentru un observator care chiar călătoreşte cu viteza luminii, ecuaţiile relativităţii speciale prezic faptul că timpul ar ajunge într-un punct complet staţionar şi lungimea s-ar micşora la zero. Fizicienii de obicei evită să ia în consideraţie această stare ciudată a lucrurilor spunând că nimic nu ...

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12 days ago

One of the questions we’ve been getting about the Planck v.0 video is “looks neat, but what is really going on there?” It’s true that conveying the mechanics through a video isn’t ideal, and while I do have a short explanation I wrote up about how the game translates play into music, I thought it wo ...

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12 days ago by telescoper

Only time for a very quick post today, so I thought I’d just pass on some news I got via Chris North about how Planck is doing. As it happens, the satellite has recently reached the point where it has observed about half the sky. It spins on its axis in rather stately fashion (at about one revolutio ...

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15 days ago

This week I was in the truly wonderful city of Bologna, home of possibly the oldest university in Europe. Nowadays, Bologna is also the home of IASF-BO, the Italian Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica, and was hosting this year's Planck Satellite Consortium meeting. Of course I can't t ...

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20 days ago by timlangford

Answer as best you can and don’t sweat it! I will only glance at your answers, since this was an “expose yourself to the latest research” activity. Questions on Dr. Bond’s RCI talk on Dark Matter

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20 days ago

Planck Version Zero (v.0) is a prototype game that lets you interact with original music through shmup mechanics. Although it plays like a familiar top-down scrolling shooter, every in-game action is interpreted through a timing and beat-matching system, turning your play into the song you hear as y ...

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24 days ago

Als grundlegenden Baustein der Speziellen Relativitätstheorie postulierte Einstein, dass die Lichtgeschwindigkeit im Vakuum nicht nur die höchste Geschwindigkeit ist, sondern sie ist unabhängig vom Beobachter immer genau gleich. Nun kann man vermuten, dass die Lichtgeschwindigkeit fr verschiedene Fr ...

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31 days ago by telescoper

Yesterday we had a nice seminar here by Antony Lewis who is currently at Cambridge, but will be on his way to Sussex in the New Year to take up a lectureship there. I thought I’d put a brief post up here so I can add it to my collection of items concerning cosmic anomalies. I admit that I had missed ...

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