Author Archives: PlatoHagel

A New Time Travel Scenario?

Posted on February 7, 2010 by PlatoHagel

Black Hole-Powered Jet of Electrons and Sub-Atomic Particles Streams From Center of Galaxy M87 NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope Yields Clear View of Optical Jet in Galaxy M87 A NASA Hubble Space Telescope (HST) view of a 4,000 light-year long jet … Continue reading →

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Perspective of the Theoretical Scientist

Posted on February 5, 2010 by PlatoHagel

Most people think of “seeing” and “observing” directly with their senses. But for physicists, these words refer to much more indirect measurements involving a train of theoretical logic by which we can interpret what is “seen.”– Lisa Randall There are … Continue reading →

Posted in Kaluza, Klein, Lisa Randall, Marcel Duchamp, Theory of Everything, TOE | Tagged , , , , , | 6 Comments

Different Approaches to a 5d world

Posted on February 3, 2010 by PlatoHagel

Smolin: And there are published predictions for observable Planck scale deviations from energy momentum relations[22, 23] that imply predictions for experiments in progress such as AUGER and GLAST. [B]For those whose interest is more towards formal speculations concerning supersymmetry and … Continue reading →

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Poincaré Hyperbolic Disk

Posted on January 25, 2010 by PlatoHagel

See also:Poincaré Hyperbolic Disk *** Hyperbolic Geometry Geometric models of hyperbolic geometry include the Klein-Beltrami model, which consists of an open disk in the Euclidean plane whose open chords correspond to hyperbolic lines. A two-dimensional model is the Poincaré hyperbolic … Continue reading →

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Interplanetary Transport Network

Posted on January 25, 2010 by PlatoHagel

This stylized depiction of the ITN is designed to show its (often convoluted) path through the solar system. The green ribbon represents one path from among the many that are mathematically possible along the surface of the darker green bounding … Continue reading →

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Sound Shaping our Views of the Universe?

Posted on January 25, 2010 by PlatoHagel

The Sound of Gravitational Waves We can’t actually hear gravitational waves, even with the most sophisticated equipment, because the sounds they make are the wrong frequency for our ears to hear. This is similar in principle to the frequency of … Continue reading →

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Gravitons and Topoi if an illusion, then Where’s the Truth?

Posted on January 23, 2010 by PlatoHagel

“Useful as it is under everyday circumstances to say that the world exists “out there” independent of us, that view can no longer be upheld. There is a strange sense in which this is a “participating universe” Wheeler (1983). Taken … Continue reading →

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Historical Figures Lead Us to the Topic of Entanglement

Posted on January 22, 2010 by PlatoHagel

Einstein Exhibit We regard quantum mechanics as a complete theory for which the fundamental physical and mathematical hypotheses are no longer susceptible of modification. –Heisenberg and Max Born, paper delivered to Solvay Congress of 1927 You know I have watched … Continue reading →

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The Dance to Truth

Posted on January 4, 2010 by PlatoHagel

While searching for familiarity on the terminology of Phenomenology, the greater question settled on my mind as to what Nature itself means. Undoubtedly we have no questions to ask which are unanswerable. We must trust the perfection of the creation … Continue reading →

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A Yearning for Truth

Posted on December 29, 2009 by PlatoHagel

Beauty, Plato wrote, is not easy to define, but something that “slips through and evades us”. For this reason, many logic-oriented philosophical approaches tend to divorce and even oppose truth and beauty. “The question of truth”, wrote logician Gottlob Frege … Continue reading →

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