Monthly Archives: August 2006

From the Stillness Born

Posted on August 13, 2006 by PlatoHagel

Can harmonic oscillators serve as a bridge between quantum mechanics and special relativity? “Daddy, is this the World,” my young son asks, as we drive through the neighborhood with which we lived. This still sits deep in my conscious mind, … Continue reading →

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At What "Point" does the Universe Make itself Known?

Posted on August 12, 2006 by PlatoHagel

According to the basic laws of physics, every wavelength of electromagnetic radiation corresponds to a specific amount of energy. The NIST/ILL team determined the value for energy in the Einstein equation, E = mc2, by carefully measuring the wavelength of … Continue reading →

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The Game of Life

Posted on August 10, 2006 by PlatoHagel

if experimenters have free will, then so do elementary particles.–John Horton Conway <a href="http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Conway.html " target=_BLank title="John Conway-Born: 26 Dec 1937 in Liverpool, England http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/PictDisplay/Conway.html”&gt; What prompted this article here is the one of JoAnne of Cosmic variance writes here … Continue reading →

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BigFoot: The Anomalistic Reality?

Posted on August 4, 2006 by PlatoHagel

The explanation of scientific development in terms of paradigms was not only novel but radical too, insofar as it gives a naturalistic explanation of belief-change. Thomas Kuhn <a href=”http://eskesthai.blogspot.com/2006/03/professors-fate-or-encouragement-to.html&#8221; target=_BLank title=”Frame from the footage filmed by Roger Patterson in October … Continue reading →

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String Theory Landscape

Posted on August 2, 2006 by PlatoHagel

The theory of strings predicts that the universe might occupy one random “valley” out of a virtually infinite selection of valleys in a vast landscape of possibilities Quantum Effect, however allow a manifold to change state abruptly at some point-to … Continue reading →

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