Category Archives: Concepts

PLATO:Mathematician or Mystic ?

Posted on January 8, 2007 by PlatoHagel

Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty, a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trappings of painting or music, yet sublimely pure, and … Continue reading →

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Reaching for the Stars

Posted on December 6, 2006 by PlatoHagel

Mars in 6 weeks? And back in a total of four months? That’s the prediction of a design team working on antimatter rocket concepts at Pennsylvania State University. But first, you have to get the stuff – and store it. … Continue reading →

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Ring World

Posted on December 5, 2006 by PlatoHagel

Impact armor, a flexible form of clothing that hardens instantly into a rigid form stronger than steel when rapidly deformed (for example, by the impact of a projectile such as a bullet) – a technology which is quickly approaching reality; … Continue reading →

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Testing Einstein’s Universe

Posted on November 30, 2006 by PlatoHagel

See larger picture of below hereComputer art showing the warping of space-time and the GP-B satellite. Artist: James Overduin and Pancho Eekels. Our aim is to make “spacetime” a relevant concept in your understanding of the universe, to make “gyroscopes” … Continue reading →

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Breakthrough Propulsion Physics?

Posted on November 28, 2006 by PlatoHagel

Shuttle Main Engine Test Firing-1981-A remote camera captures a close-up view of a Space Shuttle Main Engine during a test firing at the John C. Stennis Space Center in Hancock County, Mississippi. Spacecraft propulsion is used to change the velocity … Continue reading →

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Gravity and Electromagnetism?

Posted on November 11, 2006 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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The Radius of the Little Circle

Posted on October 23, 2006 by PlatoHagel

Where a dictionary proceeds in a circular manner, defining a word by reference to another, the basic concepts of mathematics are infinitely closer to an indecomposable element”, a kind of elementary particle” of thought with a minimal amount of ambiguity … Continue reading →

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The History of "Star Shine to Now"

Posted on October 21, 2006 by PlatoHagel

In “The String Saga of Star Shine” I gave a distant measure of how we might seen any event from that time to now. But before I begin I wanted to link Lubos’s mention of article from David G to … Continue reading →

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The Continuing Saga?

Posted on October 19, 2006 by PlatoHagel

It was Socrates’ turn to look puzzled. Oh, wake up. You know what chaos is. Simple deterministic dynamics leading to irregular, random-looking behavior. Butterfly effect. That stuff. Of course, I know that, Socrates said in irritation. No, it was the … Continue reading →

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Monster of the Milky Way

Posted on October 16, 2006 by PlatoHagel

Lubos Motl, it does not have to be “ten billion souls” that we find of just one the same. How many scientists do you know that refer to Plato? If enough is captured as “part of the original,” then why … Continue reading →

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