Category Archives: Black Board

The Inventor’s Notebook

Posted on September 17, 2008 by PlatoHagel

“Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.” – Thomas Alva Edison, Harper’s Monthly (September 1932) Thomas Edison’s first successful light bulb model, used in public demonstration at Menlo Park, December 1879 You might find a similarity here, that speaks … Continue reading →

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Time as a Measure

Posted on March 29, 2007 by PlatoHagel

SuperCosmologists Think Out of the Box, by Clifford at 1:13 am, August 3rd, 2005 From what we have learned so far about string theory, the natural starting point for doing physics which makes contact with our world seems to be … Continue reading →

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Cosmic Rays in Atlas

Posted on September 28, 2006 by PlatoHagel

Like Piglet describing the Heffalump in Winnie the Pooh by AA Milne, one knows this started out in some fantastical world. More then, the “inkblot” as a comparison leads too/from, a fictional story, and became the fantasy of Alice that … Continue reading →

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Increase in Output of Inverse Square Law Calculatons ?

Posted on March 15, 2006 by PlatoHagel

Oh my poor layman brain. It hurts. String theory and the crisis in particle physics by Bert Schroer The third point of the list is perhaps the most serious one. A theory which has in more than 30 years been … 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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Trademarks of the Geometer II

Posted on October 5, 2005 by PlatoHagel

John g, Lubos had some claim about Martian ancestry, but we know that he jests?🙂 So I do not want to use up to much more of Lubos’s blog for this conversation even though he pushes the envelope. Perhaps, you … Continue reading →

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