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Democritus had Passion and Heat?
It seems “humour” is pervading the internet today, so I thought I would add my take. Democritus Laughing, by Hendrick ter Brugghen, 1628, in Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam According to legend, Democritus was supposed to be mad because he laughed at everything, and so he was sent to Hippocrates to be cured. Hippocrates pointed out that he…
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Breakthrough Propulsion Physics?
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 of spacecraft and artificial satellites, or in short, to provide delta-v. There are many different…
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Deja Vue?
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Moore’s Law Endangered?
Moore’s Law(wikipedia 28 May 2006) Moore’s law is the empirical observation that the complexity of integrated circuits, with respect to minimum component cost, doubles every 24 months[1]. Clifford, in writing the brief article of interest, he relays another article here for consideration. Spotting the quantum tracks of gravity wavesby Zeeya Merali Their calculations show that…
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Intuitive Self and Structure: My Past
One qubit at a time by the Economist COMPUTING is about to hit a problem. In each new generation the components are smaller than they were in its predecessor, and the speed at which this miniaturisation is happening means that within 15 years or so a fundamental limit will be reached. At that point, not…
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Arthur Koestler and Creativity
True creativity often starts where language ends. Arthur Koestler For those who engaged the issue of intuition, can we say that this is very close to what creativity is ,and the quote suplied above, is in essence. Is the mind, having come to a point on the Aristotlean arch, as, having fully understood, that work…
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Coleman-De Luccia instanton
IN what way could some consistent measure be thought of, that such conditions while recognized in the false vacuum, and, with conditions of high energy considerations, be realized into useful information surrounding this move to the true vacuum? It would have to be geometrically explained. Planck epoch in itself, makes this very hard to do,…
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Mendeleev’s Table in a New Light
Taken From the Future, to the Note book HAL2001): No, I, Robot, this is not a bad physics joke. Cruelty, is dark and matter based. Heaven is colored more empheral? Rusty, the Tin Man: Cruelity/ideas arise in other ways. From “spaces created,” for which they can manifest? “I needed “a Heart,” and so too my…
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Ideas on Quantum Interrogation
We have chosen here to prepare a triplet of entangled particles of the GHZ type. The entanglement has been demonstrated by experiments performed in two orthogonal basis. The procedure can, in principle, operate on larger numbers of particles, opening the way to new fundamental tests of quantum theory. So I am deep in thought, and…
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Phase Transitions?
G -> H -> … -> SU(3) x SU(2) x U(1) -> SU(3) x U(1) Here, each arrow represents a symmetry breaking phase transition where matter changes form and the groups – G, H, SU(3), etc. – represent the different types of matter, specifically the symmetries that the matter exhibits and they are associated with…
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Nature in Analog Models
Plato: “For everyone, as I think, must see that astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.” Oh! how complete our world view would be, that I have moved quickly to the very question of all summations given. That while “visually” occupying the mind, we had been taken…
