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On Gauss’s Day of Reckoning
A famous story about the boy wonder of mathematics has taken on a life of its own –Brian Hayes Illustration by Theoni PappasIn a fanciful drawing done in the manner of a woodcut, the young Carl Friedrich Gauss receives instruction in arithmetic from the schoolmaster J. G. Büttner. As the story goes, Gauss was about…
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Computer Language and Math Joined from Artistic Impressionism?
Most people think of “seeing” and “observing” directly with their senses. But for physicists, these words refer to much more indirect measurements involving a train of theoretical logic by which we can interpret what is “seen.”- Lisa Randall Cubist Art: Picasso’s painting ‘Portrait of Dora Maar’Cubist art revolted against the restrictions that perspective imposed. Picasso’s…
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Hyperbolic Geometry and it’s Rise
Omar Khayyám the mathematician(6 april 2006 Wikipedia) He was famous during his lifetime as a mathematician, well known for inventing the method of solving cubic equations by intersecting a parabola with a circle. Although his approach at achieving this had earlier been attempted by Menaechmus and others, Khayyám provided a generalization extending it to all…
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On Gauss’s Mountain
You must understand that any corrections necessary are appreciated. The geometrical process spoken too here must be understood in it’s historical development to undertand, how one can see differently. Euclidean geometry, elementary geometry of two and three dimensions (plane and solid geometry), is based largely on the Elements of the Greek mathematician Euclid (fl. c.300…
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Bose- Einstein Condensates
ESI Special Topics, March 2004An INTERVIEW with Dr. Wolfgang Ketterle What do you see for the next five years of research on Bose-Einstein condensation? One goal is the use of condensates for advancing atom optics, to develop new or improved matter wave sensors. In condensed-matter physics, we have two big goals. We would like to…
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The Lowest Octave State
Sometimes simple concepts, like something representing the lowest vibration mode of the string, the lowest octave helps in a sense helps to orientate what the particles mean, such as protons,neutrons and electrons. Where they exist now as they cosmic collsions meet and dissapte it’s influence in our atmospheres, our planet. Yet Moshe speaking about sparticles…
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Spacetime 101
Here’s some basic background covering how mathematical models of space and time have evolved since ancient times, from the Pythagorean Rule to Newtonian mechanics, Special Relativity and General Relativity. For the roads leading to one’s view of the strange world of non-euclidean views had to offer, I of course needed some model from which to…
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Special holonomy manifolds in string theory
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The Single Photon Experiment at Rowan University is a Success!
Einstein/Bohr Debate “Not often in life has a man given me so much happiness by his mere presence as you have done,” Einstein wrote to Bohr. “I have learned much from you, mainly from your sensitive approach to scientific problems.” John G. Cramer This column is about experimental tests of the various interpretations of quantum…
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Decoherence
How to understand this quantum-to-classical transition linking two incompatible descriptions of reality is still a matter of debate among the various interpretations of quantum theory. In any case, one can probe the borderline between the classical and the quantum realm by performing interference experiments with particles of increasing complexity. Of course I am cocnerned about…
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The Future of the Book
I have definite ideas about the future in this medium Clifford. First let me say, that Indymedia was the first introduction to “real time” reporting aside from TV network medias distributors. If you could bring other perspectives to the realites of our world, then indeed media in terms of pictures, live video shots, could help…
