Category Archives: False Vacuum

What is the False Vacuum?

Posted on July 29, 2006 by PlatoHagel

Quantum Field Theory Quantum Vacuum: In classical physics, empty space is called the vacuum. The classical vacuum is utterly featureless. However, in quantum theory, the vacuum is a much more complex entity. The uncertainty principle allows virtual particles (each corresponding … Continue reading →

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Writing Your Story of Creation?

Posted on May 19, 2006 by PlatoHagel

“No container is available, and the vaporization must occur in vacuum.” Wozniak With all that energy concentrated in a space about the size of an atomic nucleus, the colliding ions, for a tiny fraction of a second, will reach a … Continue reading →

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Basis of Reality by Geometric Design?

Posted on May 6, 2006 by PlatoHagel

I would like to continually like to remind one of Plato’s cave. If the sun is behind us, how do you relate what is seen dimensionally, and describe it from first principles? The shadows are used in a way to … Continue reading →

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Coleman-De Luccia instanton

Posted on March 22, 2006 by PlatoHagel

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 … Continue reading →

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Why Higher Energies?

Posted on March 22, 2006 by PlatoHagel

I guess I don’t have to tell anyone how confusing all this stuff is and the need for a consistent picture to arise out of it. New physics beyond the standard model of particle physics and parallel universes by Rainer … Continue reading →

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What First principle was– was it the geometry

Posted on December 1, 2005 by PlatoHagel

I thought I would contrast this quote of Dirac’s with the one of Feynman’s. You see the very idea of a constancy that spread through all Maxwell’s equations was a necessary one which allowed Einstein to move into positive and … Continue reading →

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G -> H -> … -> SU(3) x SU(2) x U(1) -> SU(3) x U(1).

Posted on April 14, 2005 by PlatoHagel

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 … Continue reading →

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Bubble Nucleation

Posted on November 25, 2004 by PlatoHagel

Based on the no boundary proposal, I picture the origin of the universe, as like the formation of bubbles of steam in boiling water. Quantum fluctuations lead to the spontaneous creation of tiny universes, out of nothing. Most of the … Continue reading →

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The Looking Glast

Posted on November 15, 2004 by PlatoHagel

To test the claim, Gninenko has proposed a new experiment at CERN. He and his colleagues would confine orthopositronium to a sensitive heat-measuring device, called a calorimeter. The device would be under a strict vacuum to isolate its contents from … Continue reading →

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