Author Archives: PlatoHagel

Cosmic Strings Revisited

Posted on March 12, 2005 by PlatoHagel

This high energy consideration does this, as well as directs the mind to consider the cosmological evidence that lays before us now. Dimensional interpretation, has to have it’s basis contained within this whole view. With the cosmic string we are … Continue reading →

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Supersymmetry

Posted on March 11, 2005 by PlatoHagel

There is no branch of mathematics, however abstract, which may not some day be applied to phenomena of the real world. — Nikolai Lobachevsky John Ellis: Extensions of the Standard Model often contain more discriminatory parameters, and this is certainly … Continue reading →

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Testing Theoretical Ideas of Extra Dimensions

Posted on March 9, 2005 by PlatoHagel

“Yet I exist in the hope that these memoirs, in some manner, I know not how, may find their way to the minds of humanity in Some Dimensionality, and may stir up a race of rebels who shall refuse to … Continue reading →

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Stretching the Brain

Posted on March 7, 2005 by PlatoHagel

Pettit shakes a remarkably sturdy film of water onboard the ISS. See the full-length movie: Reel 1, Reel 2. “Observations of nature, no matter how seemingly arcane, are like peeling off one more layer from the great onion of knowledge, … Continue reading →

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So string theory is, among many other things, a theory of gravity!

Posted on March 7, 2005 by PlatoHagel

Daniel Kabat A picture of flux lines in QED (left) and QCD (right). Although it didn’t properly describe strong interactions, in studying string theory physicists stumbled upon an amazing mathematical structure. String theory has turned out to be far richer … Continue reading →

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Brane New World

Posted on March 3, 2005 by PlatoHagel

If some thought is beyond comprehensible to engage string theory and come away with some simple statement about it, imagine if we are taken to the new heights that Brane New World might implicate. But first, having understood something about … Continue reading →

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Missing Energy Events

Posted on March 1, 2005 by PlatoHagel

‘There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there. All great discoveries have involved such a leap. The important thing is not to stop questioning.’ Albert Einstein(1879- 1955) … Continue reading →

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Nothingness?

Posted on February 28, 2005 by PlatoHagel

If you assume something always had to exist, then to me, this statement of nothingness is quite puzzling to me. The most surprising difference for the quantum case is the so-called zero-point vibration” of the n=0 ground state. This implies … Continue reading →

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Veneziano Amplitude for Winding Strings

Posted on February 27, 2005 by PlatoHagel

It seems I am caught in strange world where topological functions are happening and if such tubes could contract and then expand then what energy amplitudes on tree models would say the string should have this much energy, and then … Continue reading →

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The Triumph of the Standard Model

Posted on February 25, 2005 by PlatoHagel

The discovery of the massive top quark at Fermilab in 1994 spectacularly confirmed the predictions of the Standard Model John Ellis The fundamental particle interactions described by the Standard Model are the electromagnetic, weak and strong nuclear forces. It has … Continue reading →

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