tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49472919556418678252011-12-23T08:27:49.845-03:00Alex CUNNINGHAMnoreply@blogger.comBlogger41100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4947291955641867825.post-36598489963250599222008-04-06T15:45:00.005-03:002008-04-06T16:07:41.914-03:00Via <a href="http://backreaction.blogspot.com/">BackRe(Action)</a> por <a href="http://th.physik.uni-frankfurt.de/%7Escherer/">Stefan Schere</a>r y <a href="http://th.physik.uni-frankfurt.de/%7Ehossi/">Sabine Hossenfelder</a>,<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">"... Las palabras pueden lleva a malas interpretaciones en la comunicación científica si su uso científico tiene un significado diferente del coloquial...." </span>Un post buenisimo (en inglés) sobre modelos, teorias y el mundo real en ciencia.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2ZHEWUEjZD4/R_kck2XEEPI/AAAAAAAABcA/5_J2spGmp_4/s1600-h/theoryandmodel.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2ZHEWUEjZD4/R_kck2XEEPI/AAAAAAAABcA/5_J2spGmp_4/s400/theoryandmodel.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5186207865286955250" border="0" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4947291955641867825-3659848996325059922?l=alexcunn.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Alex CUNNINGHAMnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4947291955641867825.post-89125932809239187032008-01-16T15:59:00.001-02:002008-01-16T16:16:38.168-02:00<div> </div><table style="border: 4px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); margin: 12px 0px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255) none repeat scroll 0% 50%; font-family: arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; width: 100%; clear: left;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top"><!-- BEGIN_CLIP_CONTENT ID:026DB67E-0D8A-4D7E-8495-21CA0B868F99:0 CLIPMARKS.COM --><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(220, 220, 220); white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-size: 10px;"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="clipmarks' clip-to-blog"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_icon/1e17ac31-17ce-49b8-b80e-eb5c9ac11b4e/026DB67E-0D8A-4D7E-8495-21CA0B868F99/" alt="" style="border: medium none ; margin: 0px 4px; vertical-align: middle; display: inline; float: none;" border="0" height="19" width="19" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/15/science/15brain.html" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/15/science/15brain.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.nytimes.com</a></div><blockquote style="border: medium none ; margin: 4px 0px 8px; padding: 0px 8px; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; text-align: left; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/15/science/15brain.html"><nyt_headline type=" " version="1.0"><br />Big Brain Theory: Have Cosmologists Lost Theirs?<br /></nyt_headline></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(245, 245, 245); margin: 2px 4px; background: rgb(220, 220, 220) none repeat scroll 0% 50%; height: 2px; font-size: 2px; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"></div><blockquote style="border: medium none ; margin: 4px 0px 8px; padding: 0px 8px; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; text-align: left; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/15/science/15brain.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content4237.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.nytimes.com/img/1B71DD1E-D62B-42B0-8AC2-011490274139" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(245, 245, 245); margin: 2px 4px; background: rgb(220, 220, 220) none repeat scroll 0% 50%; height: 2px; font-size: 2px; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"></div><blockquote style="border: medium none ; margin: 4px 0px 8px; padding: 0px 8px; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; text-align: left; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/15/science/15brain.html"><p>It could be the weirdest and most embarrassing prediction in the history of cosmology, if not science. </p></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(245, 245, 245); margin: 2px 4px; background: rgb(220, 220, 220) none repeat scroll 0% 50%; height: 2px; font-size: 2px; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"></div><blockquote style="border: medium none ; margin: 4px 0px 8px; padding: 0px 8px; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; text-align: left; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/15/science/15brain.html"><p>If true, it would mean that you yourself reading this article are more likely to be some momentary fluctuation in a field of matter and energy out in space than a person with a real past born through billions of years of evolution in an orderly star-spangled cosmos. Your memories and the world you think you see around you are illusions.</p></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="padding: 0px; font-size: 11px; border-spacing: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td style="border-width: 0px; padding: 0px; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"> </td><td style="border-width: 0px; padding: 0px; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; width: 107px;" align="right" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/026DB67E-0D8A-4D7E-8495-21CA0B868F99/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content4238.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" alt="blog it" style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" border="0" height="17" width="107" /></a></td></tr></tbody></table></div><!-- END_CLIP_CONTENT --></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4947291955641867825-8912593280923918703?l=alexcunn.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Alex CUNNINGHAMnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4947291955641867825.post-14827537502906397352008-01-15T14:21:00.001-02:002008-01-15T14:21:48.928-02:00<div > </div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><tr><td valign="top"><!-- BEGIN_CLIP_CONTENT ID:993ED9F2-7152-4C67-881C-D96737A64047:0 CLIPMARKS.COM --><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="clipmarks' clip-to-blog"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_icon/bcba6f72-246a-46de-bbd1-4b5235d3801d/993ED9F2-7152-4C67-881C-D96737A64047/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://observatorio.info/2008/01/la-nebulosa-del-capullo-desde-cfht/" href="http://observatorio.info/2008/01/la-nebulosa-del-capullo-desde-cfht/" style="font-size: 11px;">observatorio.info</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://observatorio.info/2008/01/la-nebulosa-del-capullo-desde-cfht/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content252722.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/observatorio.info/img/1F380385-AF40-45E6-8A3B-365BE93EBB65" alt="Observatorio" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://observatorio.info/2008/01/la-nebulosa-del-capullo-desde-cfht/"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD align="center" colspan="3"><H1><A title="Permalink for La Nebulosa del Capullo desde CFHT" href="http://observatorio.info/2008/01/la-nebulosa-del-capullo-desde-cfht/">La Nebulosa del Capullo desde CFHT</A></H1><br /> </TD></tr></table></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://observatorio.info/2008/01/la-nebulosa-del-capullo-desde-cfht/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content252723.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/observatorio.info/img/FD27990B-7FF2-408A-A72F-0742FC475649" alt="La Nebulosa del Capullo desde CFHT" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://observatorio.info/2008/01/la-nebulosa-del-capullo-desde-cfht/"><DIV class="headertext" id="19eeb52dcee1d67f4c8c2899715">Imagen del día 14 de Enero de 2008 traducida por <B>Ricardo Cárdenes</B><br /> </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://observatorio.info/2008/01/la-nebulosa-del-capullo-desde-cfht/"><P>¿Qué provoca los colores de la Nebulosa del Capullo?</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://observatorio.info/2008/01/la-nebulosa-del-capullo-desde-cfht/"><P>La <A href="http://www.noao.edu/outreach/aop/observers/ic5146.html">Nebulosa del Capullo</A>, catalogada como <A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index_Catalog">IC<IMG src="http://i.ixnp.com/images/v3.10.2/t.gif" class="snap_preview_icon" id="snap_com_shot_link_icon" /></A> 5146, es una nebulosa particularmente hermosa situada a unos 4.000 <A href="http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/questions/question19.html">años luz</A> de distancia hacia la <A href="http://www.astro.wisc.edu/~dolan/constellations/extra/constellations.html">constelación</A> del Cisne (<A href="http://www.astronomical.org/portal/modules/wfsection/article.php?articleid=31">Cygnus</A> ).</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://observatorio.info/2008/01/la-nebulosa-del-capullo-desde-cfht/"><P>Dentro de la Nebulosa del <A href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=44640880585792574">Capullo<IMG src="http://i.ixnp.com/images/v3.10.2/t.gif" class="snap_preview_icon" id="snap_com_shot_link_icon" /></A> se encuentra un <A href="http://www.seds.org/messier/open.html">cúmulo abierto</A> de estrellas de creación reciente.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://observatorio.info/2008/01/la-nebulosa-del-capullo-desde-cfht/"><P>Al igual que otras <A href="http://observatorio.info/2008/01/la-nebulosa-del-capullo-desde-cfht/stellar_nurseries.html">incubadoras estelares</A>, la Nebulosa del Capullo contiene al mismo tiempo una brillante <A href="http://observatorio.info/2008/01/la-nebulosa-del-capullo-desde-cfht/emission_nebulae.html">nebulosa de emisión</A> roja, <A href="http://observatorio.info/2008/01/la-nebulosa-del-capullo-desde-cfht/reflection_nebulae.html">nebulosas de reflexión azules</A> y <A href="http://observatorio.info/2008/01/la-nebulosa-del-capullo-desde-cfht/dark_nebulae.html">nebulosas de absorción</A> de un rojo oscuro.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://observatorio.info/2008/01/la-nebulosa-del-capullo-desde-cfht/"><P>Mediante diferentes mezclas, estos tres procesos crean la gama de colores de la <A href="http://www.cfht.hawaii.edu/HawaiianStarlight/AIOM/English/CFHT-Coelum-AIOM-Apr2007.html">imagen de arriba</A> tomada recientemente por el <A href="http://observatorio.info/2008/01/la-nebulosa-del-capullo-desde-cfht/ap000905.html">Telescopio Canadá-Francia-Hawaii</A> (CFHT) situado en <A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaii">Hawaii<IMG src="http://i.ixnp.com/images/v3.10.2/t.gif" class="snap_preview_icon" id="snap_com_shot_link_icon" /></A>, EEUU.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/993ED9F2-7152-4C67-881C-D96737A64047/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content252726.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div><!-- END_CLIP_CONTENT --></td></tr></table> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4947291955641867825-1482753750290639735?l=alexcunn.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Alex CUNNINGHAMnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4947291955641867825.post-43070107919446913962008-01-15T14:17:00.001-02:002008-01-15T14:17:05.337-02:00<div > </div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="margin: 12px 0px; 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padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200801/fallows-chinese-dollars"><P id="blurb">The Chinese are subsidizing the American way of life. Are we playing them for suckers—or are they playing us?</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200801/fallows-chinese-dollars"><P id="byline"><br />by <A href="http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/by/james_fallows"><SPAN class="hankpym">J</SPAN>ames <SPAN class="hankpym">F</SPAN>allows</A><br /></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200801/fallows-chinese-dollars"><H1>The $1.4 Trillion Question</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200801/fallows-chinese-dollars"><P class="topgraf" icap="on"> <SPAN class="drop">S</SPAN><br /><IMG class="topgraf" src="http://www.theatlantic.com/images/issues/200801/fallows.jpg" /><br />tephen Schwarzman may think he has image problems in America. He is the co-founder and CEO of the Blackstone Group, and he threw himself a $3 million party for his 60th birthday last spring, shortly before making many hundreds of millions of dollars in his company’s IPO and finding clever ways to avoid paying taxes. That’s nothing compared with the way he looks in China. Here, he and his company are surprisingly well known, thanks to blogs, newspapers, and talk-show references. In America, Schwarzman’s perceived offense is greed—a sin we readily forgive and forget. In China, the suspicion is that he has somehow hoodwinked ordinary Chinese people out of their hard-earned cash. <br /></P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/274563BA-E50D-49E0-B50D-7D8450ABE43E/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content251541.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div><!-- END_CLIP_CONTENT --></td></tr></table> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4947291955641867825-4307010791944691396?l=alexcunn.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Alex CUNNINGHAMnoreply@blogger.com0