Author Archives: PlatoHagel

Think Math

Posted on October 24, 2005 by PlatoHagel

Nature’s patterns So who is right? Well, there is much that is attractive in the Platonist point of view. It’s tempting to see our everyday world as a pale shadow of a more perfect, ordered, mathematically exact one. For one … Continue reading →

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Strings: The First Three Seconds

Posted on October 22, 2005 by PlatoHagel

I didn’t want to invoke God here, but in any “flash” is there not some pattern that mathematically needed to describe the way everything began? A word, or sound? An equation means nothing to me unless it expresses a thought … Continue reading →

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Resonance: Brownian Motion

Posted on October 21, 2005 by PlatoHagel

Now before I go into this I am thinking also if how “weathered effects and chaos” would have allowed quantum probability valuations (let’s say spintronic idealization to channel) to have been curtailed to a Professor crossing the room. Brane orientation … Continue reading →

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Tall Tales and Sailing Ships

Posted on October 20, 2005 by PlatoHagel

I am a photon, and my name is “Christopher Columbus.” Like Plato, I have taken a great adventure into the “world of possibilties” that not only encompassed the scope of man’s thinking in terms of horizons, but I enlist these … Continue reading →

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A Perspective on Powers of Ten?

Posted on October 19, 2005 by PlatoHagel

What do chance encounters bring to the quality of life? Tabula rasa >(Latin: “scraped tablet”, though often translated “blank slate”) is the notion that individual human beings are born “blank” (with no built-in mental content), and that their identity is … Continue reading →

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What are those Quantum Microstates

Posted on October 18, 2005 by PlatoHagel

Now two points occupy my mind that hold questions as to what and how such counting can be done in terms of geometric propensity, that would allow these geometries into topological states. First point is: Lubos Motl said: We need … Continue reading →

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Lagrange points

Posted on October 16, 2005 by PlatoHagel

As always, the pictures serve as links, as well as highlighted paragraphs in blue, and having once visited, purple. Pictures and paragraphs that are highlighted in gold are in conjunction and are direct links to sites, as well as fawcetts, … Continue reading →

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Art and Science

Posted on October 15, 2005 by PlatoHagel

This is going to be quite the blog entry because as little a response might have been from Clifford’s links to artistic imagery and it’s relation to science. I definitely have more to say. So being short of time, the … Continue reading →

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Information on Entanglement

Posted on October 14, 2005 by PlatoHagel

Atomic dance What the teams at the University of Innsbruck and the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (Nist) did was teleport qubits from one atom to another with the help of a third auxiliary atom. It relies on … Continue reading →

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The History of Dark Matter Theory

Posted on October 13, 2005 by PlatoHagel

The existence of dark matter was first suggested in the early 1930’s by the Swiss physicist Fritz Zwicky who calculated that the radial velocities of eight galaxies was 400 times greater than that expected by the shared gravity of luminous … Continue reading →

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