Author Archives: PlatoHagel

View on the Expansion of the Universe

Posted on August 24, 2005 by PlatoHagel

Georgi Dvali:The cosmic acceleration of the universe indicates that the laws of General Relativity get modified not only at very short but also at very large distances, Dvali says. It is this modification, and not dark energy, that is responsible … Continue reading →

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More Views on the Landscape

Posted on August 23, 2005 by PlatoHagel

How would such a “landscape” bring string theory into better comprehension? The Most perfect fluid in face of strong coupling? Yet at the other end, there is no deviation? Eric Adelberger on Aug 12th, 2005 at 2:37 pm It is … Continue reading →

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What Lies Beneath

Posted on August 23, 2005 by PlatoHagel

The Bottom up approach? R.B.Laughlin: The paper by Senthil et al. [9] is an attempt to address this issue mathematically. It deals specifically with a suspicion many of us have had that quark confinement, one of the most cherished features … Continue reading →

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Observatories

Posted on August 22, 2005 by PlatoHagel

What is Sun-Earth Day? As I was reading Cliffords newest entry on Cosmic Variance site, his trip reminded me of the hike we took to see the Big Horn Medicine Wheel. Now what is interesting about this is I am … Continue reading →

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Space and Time: Einstein and Beyond

Posted on August 21, 2005 by PlatoHagel

You know it’s amazing sometimes when the question in mind being put out there is not really answered right away, yet, it is strange that you ask and sure enough the right paper seems to find you. Plato said:Can this … Continue reading →

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Big Horn Medicine Wheel

Posted on August 19, 2005 by PlatoHagel

I’ll put a picture here from my trip(it is taken from the board located at the site). It’s the Bighorn Medicine Wheel located by Sheridan Wyoming. It is about 9642 feet up and on Medicine Mountain. The walk was about … Continue reading →

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Unexpected High energies of Cosmic Rays

Posted on August 17, 2005 by PlatoHagel

Plato said: I am thinking about Lee Smolin’s history here in terms of discrete measures ( I am developing a perspective here in relation that will be complied later) How this effected the the way Lee may have viewed the … Continue reading →

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Explanation on the Landscape

Posted on August 15, 2005 by PlatoHagel

Photograph by Clifford Johnson While on Cosmic Invariance, Clifford brings a much needed attempt at explanation on how we view the landscape. I’ll have to spend sometime going over this becuase it is a critical position and difference between two … Continue reading →

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What! Superficiality has extra dimensions to it?

Posted on August 13, 2005 by PlatoHagel

Sometimes I like to play, “knock knock whose there” on my head. :) Quantitative studies of future experiments to be carried out by LHC show that any signatures of missing energy can be used to probe the nature of gravity … Continue reading →

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STRINGS ’05 PUBLIC LECTURES

Posted on August 11, 2005 by PlatoHagel

Peter Woit: Dijkgraaf’s talk was completely standard string evangelism, and except for a couple slides mentioning D-branes and black holes, could easily have been given, completely unchanged, twenty years ago. Sometimes if you do not do this assessment for the … Continue reading →

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