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Developing Character in Rhetoric and Composition
Francis Bacon (1561 – 1626)—–although not a rhetorician, contributed to the field in his writings. One of the concerns of the age was to find a suitable style for the discussion of scientific topics, which needed above all a clear exposition of facts and arguments, rather than the ornate style favored at the time. Bacon…
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The Holographical Mapping of the Standard Model onto the Blackhole Horizon
New paper that came out yesterday written by Gerard ‘t Hooft Interactions between outgoing Hawking particles and ingoing matter are determined by gravitational forces and Standard Model interactions. In particular the gravitational interactions are responsible for the unitarity of the scattering against the horizon, as dictated by the holographic principle, but the Standard Model interactions…
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Brane New World
If some thought is beyond comprehensible to engage string theory and come away with some simple statement about it, imagine if we are taken to the new heights that Brane New World might implicate. But first, having understood something about the matrix involved I tried to educate myself and look for the thread that would…
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Blackhole Production and Sonluminence
John Ellis:The quark-gluon plasma – if it exists and is being produced at RHIC – is considerably more complicated than was thought a few years ago. It seems to be an almost perfect, strongl-interacting fluid with very low viscosity. Theoretically, there have been some very interesting developments relating the plasma to string theory, as well…
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A Classical Discription of the Quantum World?
D Orbital Orbitals are probability diagrams. Specifically, an orbital describes a region in space where there is a 90% change of finding an electron. The electron is never restricted to an orbital as in travels around a nucleus, but it seems to keep returning to this particular region even though its behavior is random. The…
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Quantum Harmonic Oscillator
Let us see how these great physicists used harmonic oscillators to establish beachheads to new physics. Albert Einstein used harmonic oscillators to understand specific heats of solids and found that energy levels are quantized. This formed one of the key bridges between classical and quantum mechanics. Werner Heisenberg and Erwin Schrödinger formulated quantum mechanics. The…
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Plato’s Cave and Heisenberg, 21st Century with Witten
Breaking Symmetry Here I sit in Brane world and the idea of “Pants” reaching different dimenisons seems intrigueing to me. Far beyond the views that one see from the light shining, from the open mouth of the cave, some far reaching ideas are manfesting into the world we see today. How weak then, the gravity…
