Category Archives: Kip Thorne

Time is Like a River

Posted on April 3, 2008 by PlatoHagel

How can a speck of a universe be physically identical to the great expanse we view in the heavens above? (Greene, The Elegant Universe, pages 248-249) As Alice learned, it’s not always clear what’s a looking glass, and what’s a … Continue reading →

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Blackhole Information Paradox

Posted on March 26, 2008 by PlatoHagel

What good is a universe without somebody around to look at it?Robert Dicke John Archibald Wheeler (born July 9, 1911) is an eminent American theoretical physicist. One of the later collaborators of Albert Einstein, he tried to achieve Einstein’s vision … Continue reading →

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Dennis William Sciama

Posted on March 25, 2008 by PlatoHagel

Dennis William Siahou Sciama FRS (November 18, 1926–December 18, 1999) was a British physicist who, through his own work and that of his students, played a major role in developing British physics after the Second World War. Sciama also strongly … Continue reading →

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The Gravity People of our History

Posted on December 15, 2007 by PlatoHagel

What good is a universe without somebody around to look at it?Robert Dicke John Archibald Wheeler (born July 9, 1911) is an eminent American theoretical physicist. One of the later collaborators of Albert Einstein, he tried to achieve Einstein’s vision … Continue reading →

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Kip Thorne on Space Place Live and Cosmc Colors

Posted on December 8, 2007 by PlatoHagel

The most important thing is to be motivated by your own intellectual curiosity. KIP THORNE Click here to watch Kip Thorne on Space Place Live. The “Color of Gravity to Sound” forces perspective. What can I say? It becomes an … Continue reading →

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Production of Gravitational Waves

Posted on September 29, 2007 by PlatoHagel

“My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky.”William Wordsworth— My Heart Leaps Up This post is based on “the production” and not the detection of gravitational waves. It does serve it’s purpose, that I explain what … Continue reading →

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The History of "Star Shine to Now"

Posted on October 21, 2006 by PlatoHagel

In “The String Saga of Star Shine” I gave a distant measure of how we might seen any event from that time to now. But before I begin I wanted to link Lubos’s mention of article from David G to … Continue reading →

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GRand Quantum Conjecture

Posted on July 13, 2006 by PlatoHagel

My continued looked into the “fluids dynamics” had me wonder about the superfluid anomalies. How would the “sphere look” if it collapsed and allowed information to travel through it, based on what has been given here for perspective, when the … Continue reading →

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Singularities must be Rewritten?

Posted on July 11, 2006 by PlatoHagel

From Dr. Kip Thorne, Caltech 01 On Relativity-Plate 24 I have given examples why the singularities have to be rewritten. I explain the value of the KK Tower as well. As well, it’s relationship to curvature of the universe. Following … Continue reading →

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Pulsars and Cerenkov Radiation

Posted on May 27, 2006 by PlatoHagel

Of course, I could be mistaken making such assumptions. Scientists May Soon Have Evidence for Exotic Predictions of String Theoryissued by Northeaster University “String theory and other possibilities can distort the relative numbers of ‘down’ and ‘up’ neutrinos,” said Jonathan … Continue reading →

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