Author Archives: PlatoHagel

A Holograpical Universe

Plato likened our view of the world to that of an ancient forebear watching shadows meander across a dimly lit cave wall. He imagined our perceptions to be but a faint inkling of a far richer reality that flickers beyond … Continue reading

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Redefining the Architecture of Memory

It’s an older article but definitely worth the read in context of spintronics technology. At I.B.M.’s research lab in San Jose, Calif., Stuart S. P. Parkin is working on a device that could increase chip data storage by 10 to … Continue reading

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Setting Time Aright

Time has no independent existence apart from the order of events by which we measure it. — Albert Einstein While Event has since past, I hope the lecture itself will remain in public domain. It helps so as to see … Continue reading

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Weber Bars Ring True?

Gravitational Radiation Gravitational waves have a polarization pattern that causes objects to expand in one direction, while contracting in the perpendicular direction. That is, they have spin two. This is because gravity waves are fluctuations in the tensorial metric of … Continue reading

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The Science of Consciousness: Consciousness as a Phase Shift?

Ya okay…all these opinions….it still begs the question of “What makes you you?“ Cells are just the building blocks of our body, like the bricks of a house, but who is the architect, who coordinates the building of this house. … Continue reading

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Freedom Box

FreedomBox v Facebook – Eben Moglen from Nick B-T on Vimeo.  *** Freedom Box Project Inspired by Eben Moglen’s vision of a small, cheap and simple computer that serves freedom in the home. We are building a Debian based platform … Continue reading

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Another Kind of Sideways

 I wanted to expand on where the title,”Another Kind of Sideways.” This blog posting  came from an interview with Clifford of Asymptotia by PBS. He had a posting of his own entitled Multiverse Musings about a Nova series on PBS … Continue reading

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How Time Ages the Pyramids

Chanticleer – A Pleasure Garden Believing that something must be true about the world because you can’t imagine otherwise is, five hundred years into the Age of Science, not a recommended strategy for acquiring reliable knowledge. It goes back to … Continue reading

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David Deutsch: A new way to explain explanation

When you are told that carrots have human rights because they share half our genes — but not how gene percentages confer rights — wizard. When someone announces that the nature-nurture debate has been settled because there is evidence that … Continue reading

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The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer Experiment )02

Credit: NASA/JSC, NASA During the 14-day mission, Endeavour delivered the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) and spare parts including two S-band communications antennas, a high-pressure gas tank and additional spare parts for Dextre. This was the 36th shuttle mission to the … Continue reading

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