Author Archives: PlatoHagel

The center and the whole-what it means?

Posted on January 2, 2008 by PlatoHagel

If conceived as a series of ever-wider experiential contexts, nested one within the other like a set of Chinese boxes, consciousness can be thought of as wrapping back around on itself in such a way that the outermost ‘context’ is … Continue reading →

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"Lego Block" Galaxies in Early Universe

Posted on December 31, 2007 by PlatoHagel

Witten: One thing I can tell you, though, is that most string theorist’s suspect that spacetime is a emergent Phenomena in the language of condensed matter physics. n this image of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, several objects are identified … Continue reading →

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Zombie Central

Posted on December 30, 2007 by PlatoHagel

Peter Woit:Hopefully Nature won’t take its place as Zombie-central… December 30th, 2007 at 11:10 am if link deleted(yep! it sure has:) see here Plato said, “I have never deviated from the name I use, so you get the sense of … Continue reading →

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Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

Posted on December 21, 2007 by PlatoHagel

Dialogos of Eide

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Bullet Cluster

Posted on December 21, 2007 by PlatoHagel

A purple haze shows dark matter flanking the “Bullet Cluster.” Image Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/M.Markevitch et al. Optical: NASA/STScI; Magellan/U.Arizona/D.Clowe et al. Lensing Map: NASA/STScI; ESO WFI; Magellan/U.Arizona/D.Clowe et al The amount of matter, or “mass,” in a galaxy is made … Continue reading →

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The Gravity People of our History

Posted on December 15, 2007 by PlatoHagel

What good is a universe without somebody around to look at it?Robert Dicke John Archibald Wheeler (born July 9, 1911) is an eminent American theoretical physicist. One of the later collaborators of Albert Einstein, he tried to achieve Einstein’s vision … Continue reading →

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The Other Side of the Coin

Posted on December 11, 2007 by PlatoHagel

Susan Holmes– Statistician Persi Diaconis’ mechanical coin flipper. In football’s inaugural kickoff coin toss, the coin is not caught but allowed to bounce on the ground. That introduces an extra complication, one mathematicians have yet to sort out. Persi Diaconis … Continue reading →

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Kip Thorne on Space Place Live and Cosmc Colors

Posted on December 8, 2007 by PlatoHagel

The most important thing is to be motivated by your own intellectual curiosity. KIP THORNE Click here to watch Kip Thorne on Space Place Live. The “Color of Gravity to Sound” forces perspective. What can I say? It becomes an … Continue reading →

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Descriptive geometry

Posted on December 4, 2007 by PlatoHagel

At this point in the development, although geometry provided a common framework for all the forces, there was still no way to complete the unification by combining quantum theory and general relativity. Since quantum theory deals with the very small … Continue reading →

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Melancholia Magic Square

Posted on December 3, 2007 by PlatoHagel

The most famous 4 x 4 magic square is the so-called Melancholia magic square. In 1514, Albrecht Dürer used the square in his engraving Melancholie which depicts the indecision of the intellectual. The two numbers, 15 and 14, in the … Continue reading →

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