Category Archives: geometries

Sylvester’s Surfaces

Posted on May 21, 2005 by PlatoHagel

Figure 2. Clebsch’s Diagonal Surface: Wonderful. We are told that “mathematics is that study which knows nothing of observation…” I think no statement could have been more opposite to the undoubted facts of the case; that mathematical analysis is constantly … Continue reading →

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Spheres Instead of Circles

Posted on May 20, 2005 by PlatoHagel

This is a torus (like a doughnut) on which several circles are located. Unlike on a Euclidean plane, on this surface it is impossible to determine which circle is inside of which, since if you go from the black circle … Continue reading →

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Topo-sense?

Posted on May 19, 2005 by PlatoHagel

Michael Persinger has a vision – the Almighty isn’t dead, he’s an energy field. And your mind is an electromagnetic map to your soul. Persinger’s research forays are at the very frontier of the roiling field of neuroscience, the biochemical … Continue reading →

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Visualization: Changing Perspective

Posted on May 12, 2005 by PlatoHagel

I give some perspective on “image use and artistic expression.” But such journeys are not limited to the “ideas of a book” or “a painting” in some form of geometric code. Some will remember Salvador Dali picture I posted. I … Continue reading →

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The Unity of Mathematics

Posted on May 11, 2005 by PlatoHagel

Alain Connes Where a dictionary proceeds in a circular manner, defning 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 … Continue reading →

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Rhetoric and Composition

Posted on April 23, 2005 by PlatoHagel

I hope the time will be taken to patiently read and follow through as it will explain the dangers of what Sokal did, and the mistrust he place at the front door of media control. Censorship. What were the motivations … Continue reading →

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Supersymmetrical Realities

Posted on April 8, 2005 by PlatoHagel

Fusion Power Within Reach? Controlling the eddies and whirls of the writhing plasma so that it can burst into life as a miniature Sun has been a formidable, and so far only partially met, engineering challenge. “If we follow the … Continue reading →

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Cosmological and Microstate Blackholes

Posted on April 7, 2005 by PlatoHagel

Perspectives On Nature’s Greatest Puzzles Nima Arkani-Hamed: First rule of progress in science-better to follow your nose, then twiddle your thumbs My perspectives are elementary generalizations from the views of those at the forefront of theoretcical research into comprehenson of … Continue reading →

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Raychaudhuri Equation

Posted on March 30, 2005 by PlatoHagel

Is it sand running through our fingers, or a taffy like substance, in symbolic form? The difference, discretium and fluidity of nature, geometrically/topologically driven, are at war with what we might interpret in time? Early on, Salvador Dali understood well … Continue reading →

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Vision

Posted on March 25, 2005 by PlatoHagel

It’s no secret now, that I see where symbols are very important in the analysis of complex structures, once modeled. Might move the definition of everything we had encountered, from that model assumption. One had to know that Michio Kaku … Continue reading →

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