Author Archives: PlatoHagel

The Founder of Probabilty Theory?

Posted on January 19, 2008 by PlatoHagel

I want to understand what makes the world tick. Einstein said he wanted to know what was on God’s mind when he made the world. I don’t think he was a religious man, but I know what he means.Lenny Susskind … Continue reading →

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MESSENGER Reveals Mercury’s Geological History

Posted on January 18, 2008 by PlatoHagel

Stefan of Backreaction posted a blog entry called,”Mercury looks like the Moon, nearly… that brought me up to speed on what the planet actually looks like. His article provides for the links here in this entry, as well sets the … Continue reading →

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LTool

Posted on January 18, 2008 by PlatoHagel

A “freeway” through the solar system resembling a vast array of virtual winding tunnels and conduits around the Sun and planets, as envisioned by an engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Pasadena, Calif., can slash the amount of fuel … Continue reading →

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Boltzmann’s Brain

Posted on January 15, 2008 by PlatoHagel

There is a new article by Dennis Overbye in the New York Times called, Big Brain Theory: Have Cosmologists Lost Theirs? It could be the weirdest and most embarrassing prediction in the history of cosmology, if not science. If true, … Continue reading →

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HENRI POINCARE : Mathematics and Science-Last Essays

Posted on January 10, 2008 by PlatoHagel

Jules Henri Poincare (1854-1912) The scientist does not study nature because it is useful. He studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful. HENRI POINCARE Mathematics and Science:Last Essays Since we are … Continue reading →

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Free for all: Dream Come True

Posted on January 9, 2008 by PlatoHagel

As a lay person involved and very interested in the research that in going on in science, anything that speaks to the “openness of science” which will allow me to get information that is not third hand, is a wonderful … Continue reading →

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Higgs Mass and Current Issues

Posted on January 9, 2008 by PlatoHagel

For example, theory says that Higgs particles are matter particles, but in most respects the Higgs behaves more like a new force than like a particle. How can this be? In truth, the Higgs is neither matter nor force; the … Continue reading →

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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Posted on January 8, 2008 by PlatoHagel

In a nutshell, what Karim showed was that each time a memory is used, it has to be restored as a new memory in order to be accessible later. The old memory is either not there or is inaccessible. In … Continue reading →

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What is Dark Energy?

Posted on January 8, 2008 by PlatoHagel

I am recreating this post in accordance with other viewers who are currently looking at the subject of Dark Energy. Also some resources for further reading. All events shown here (except KEK test detector) were generated by Monte-Carlo simulation program, … Continue reading →

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Donut, W/hole in Space:The Structure of Consciousness and the Universe

Posted on January 5, 2008 by PlatoHagel

The innermost and outermost psychological ‘space’ (which is here a metaphor for ‘concentrated attention’ and ‘diffused attention’) are recognized as indeed the same, continuous. For explanations of these images see here It is important to understand the way in which … Continue reading →

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