Author Archives: PlatoHagel

Theoretical Excellence

Posted on February 12, 2008 by PlatoHagel

Although Aristotle in general had a more empirical and experimental attitude than Plato, modern science did not come into its own until Plato’s Pythagorean confidence in the mathematical nature of the world returned with Kepler, Galileo, and Newton. For instance, … Continue reading →

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Inside Out

Posted on February 12, 2008 by PlatoHagel

3.1 As Cytowic notes, Plato and Socrates viewed emotion and reason as in a kind of struggle, one in which it was vitally important for reason to win out. Aristotle took a more moderate view, that both emotion and reason … Continue reading →

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Self Evident Truths

Posted on February 10, 2008 by PlatoHagel

I am convinced that those societies [as the Indians] which live without government enjoy in their general mass an infinitely greater degree of happiness than those who live under European governments.— Thomas Jefferson to Edward Carrington, 1787 There is a … Continue reading →

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Winter Shangrila

Posted on February 9, 2008 by PlatoHagel

As to the date stamped on the pictures these are the correct ones. Mother Nature has sent us about another ten inches since then. As some of you know, I spent about seven months in 2007 building this house with … Continue reading →

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Wildlife

Posted on February 9, 2008 by PlatoHagel

Moose (Alces alces) This was captured outside our garage door by my wife. I happened to be on the other side of the house, when I heard the dogs barking, and my wife telling me to come quick. Over the … Continue reading →

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WE ARE A HEAVENLY FLOWER

Posted on February 6, 2008 by PlatoHagel

AND we should consider that God gave the sovereign part of the human soul to be the divinity of each one, being that part which, as we say, dwells at the top of the body, inasmuch as we are a … Continue reading →

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Mind Maps: Mathematical Structures?

Posted on February 4, 2008 by PlatoHagel

<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platonic_doctrine_of_recollection&quot; target=_BLank title="The Platonic doctrine of recollection is the idea that we are born possessing all knowledge and our realization of that knowledge is contingent on our discovery of it. Whether the doctrine should be taken literally or not … Continue reading →

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Phase Transitions and the Unparticles

Posted on January 30, 2008 by PlatoHagel

Another Odd Thing About Unparticle PhysicsHoward Georgi The peculiar propagator of scale invariant unparticles has phases that produce unusual patterns of interference with standard model processes. We illustrate some of these effects in e+e− → µ+µ−. To be a bit … Continue reading →

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Wrapping the Energetic Particles to the Cosmos

Posted on January 26, 2008 by PlatoHagel

The Origin of the Highest Energy ParticlesDate: 2008-01-09 14:00:00 Abstract: After almost a century of observations, the ultra-high energy sky has finally displayed an anisotropic distribution. A significant correlation between the arrival directions of ultra-high cosmic rays measured by the … Continue reading →

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Ueber die Hypothesen, welche der Geometrie zu Grunde liegen.

Posted on January 24, 2008 by PlatoHagel

As I pounder the very basis of my thoughts about geometry based on the very fabric of our thinking minds, it has alway been a reductionist one in my mind, that the truth of the reality would a geometrical one. … Continue reading →

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