Author Archives: PlatoHagel

The Holographical Principle

Posted on November 11, 2004 by PlatoHagel

I must add a very important note. It is still hard for me to believe that Lee Smolin wrote something that could imply that *he* was the author of the conjecture. Lee Smolin has nothing to do with the discovery … Continue reading →

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Information in the Holographic Universe: A Holographic Spacetime

Posted on November 9, 2004 by PlatoHagel

by Jacob D. Bekenstein TWO UNIVERSES of different dimension and obeying disparate physical laws are rendered completely equivalent by the holographic principle. Theorists have demonstrated this principle mathematically for a specific type of five-dimensional spacetime (“anti–de Sitter”) and its four-dimensional … Continue reading →

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The Holographic Principle and M-Theory

Posted on November 9, 2004 by PlatoHagel

To them, I said, the truth would be literally nothing but the shadows of the images. –Plato, The Republic (Book VII) Of course, to Plato this story was just meant to symbolize mankind’s struggle to reach enlightenment and understanding through … Continue reading →

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Tesseract

Posted on November 8, 2004 by PlatoHagel

In geometry, the tesseract, or hypercube, is a regular, convex polychoron with eight cubical cells. It can be thought of as a 4-dimensional analogue of the cube. Roughly speaking the tesseract is to the cube as the cube is to … Continue reading →

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The Recognition of Truth When the Hands Were Used

Posted on November 7, 2004 by PlatoHagel

Plato’s theory of recollection explained why we simply recognize truths for what they are: the soul had seen them directly in an abstracter state, among the eternal Ideas, before we were born. Aristotle hedged these bets: some first principles were … Continue reading →

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Heisenberg’s Physics and Philosophies

Posted on November 7, 2004 by PlatoHagel

In the famous simile of the cave Plato compares men to prisoners in a cave who are bound and can look in only one direction. They have a fire behind them and see on a wall the shadows of themselves … Continue reading →

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Betrayal of Images" by Rene Magritte

Posted on November 7, 2004 by PlatoHagel

I am expanding on the subject of the fifth dimension, and how I am percieving it. The light behind, in the analogy of Plato’s cave, sets up the thinking in how issues from the source[the fire]( and here it might … Continue reading →

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Holography and Dimensional Relevance

Posted on November 6, 2004 by PlatoHagel

Holography encodes the information in a region of space onto a surface one dimension lower. It sees to be the property of gravity, as is shown by the fact that the area of th event horizon measures the number of … Continue reading →

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Quantum Gravity Models

Posted on November 6, 2004 by PlatoHagel

PLato saids,”Look to the perfection of the heavens for truth,” while Aristotle saids “look around you at what is if you would know the truth” Quantum Gravity I guess we have a choice here? Between the models of what would … Continue reading →

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Light From the Fifth Dimension

Posted on November 5, 2004 by PlatoHagel

From a supersymmetrical stand point, this would have to make sense shining from a hyperdimensional (fifth dimensional) realm. Plato’s cave reveals the light from these higher dimensions, and the shadows on the wall, lead to eucldidean perspectives? Dialogos of Eide

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