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Brane New World
O wonder!How many goodly creatures are there here!How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world,That has such people in’t. —William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act V, Scene I, ll. 203–206[5] Brave New World Revisited The allegorical relations that one might find to the subject of Brane is more then just the grey matter, but is an…
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What is the Total Field?
The general theory of relativity is as yet incomplete insofar as it has been able to apply the general principle of relativity satisfactorily only to gravitational fields, but not to the total field. We do not yet know with certainty by what mathematical mechanism the total field in space is to be described and what…
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CUBESats
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OPAL
OPALS is manifested to launch on the third ISS resupply mission by a SpaceX Falcon 9 Dragon in February 2014. This artist’s concept shows how the Optical Payload for Lasercomm Science (OPALS) laser will beam data to Earth from the International Space Station. Credit: NASA. “OPALS represents a tangible stepping stone for laser communications, and…
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Albert Einstein and Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath with Einstein in 1930 Was reading a interesting article called, ” When Einstein Met Tagore. by Maria Popova On July 14, 1930, Albert Einstein welcomed into his home on the outskirts of Berlin the Indian philosopher Rabindranath Tagore. The two proceeded to have one of the most stimulating, intellectually riveting conversations in history, exploring…
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Atlantis (continued)
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Matter Bound?
Here at Last So what is defined, as too, in any given parameter space(configuration space), we may not talk about things that we do not see, or understand, yet, have modeled an approach as to it’s substance. Matter, mass, energy? Some thoughts that come to mind then and formulations are beginning. So I ask as…
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Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer spacecraft
See: NASA Ames LADEE Mission: NASA Briefing Previews Lunar Mission NASA’s Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer, or LADEE, spacecraft has completed the check-out phase of its mission and has begun science operations around the moon. All the science instruments on-board have been examined by the LADEE team and have been cleared to begin collecting…
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Problems in Condensed Matter Physics and How String Theory Can Explain
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The Monochord
Pythagoras in School of Athens A monochord is an ancient musical and scientific laboratory instrument. It is also the class-name for any musical stringed instrument having only one string (such as the Vietnamese Đàn bầu). The word “monochord” comes from the Greek and means literally “one string.” In a true monochord, a single string…
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What is Beauty in a Abstract World?
Pierre Curie (1894): “Asymmetry is what creates a phenomenon.” This has been of some interest to me as this issue is explained. I can see where such abstraction when not in some way connected to the real world would to one seem as if it is a dry unimaginative world, just moving through qualitative functions.…
