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Plato and Aristotle
Plato – holding the Timaeus – Pointing up as a sign of his metaphysical belief in the higher world of the forms, shown with the face of Leonardo. Aristotle – holding his Ethics with hand palm down, reflecting a more grounded approach to the problem of universals. I wanted to remind people of something quite…
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The Blackhole as a Superfluid: It’s Viscosity
Now you must understand that thinking of any first principle is hard to refrain from, especially, if one had thought like I do, that the geometrical tendencies are inherent in the way this is handled, and that it leads to other things? “The equations of relativity fail, and new laws emerge.” saids George Musser. ”…
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Laughlin, Reductionism, Emergence
I am still operating from the idea of Xtra-Dimensions. What motivating force would have brought such a quantum gravity group together and the aspect it might have spoken from? What mysterious forces motivates all these ladies/ gentlemen? Everyone knows that human societies organize themselves. But it is also true that nature organizes itself, and that…
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Strings and No_Sense?
Well for me, if theorists have mathematically created a vision of things, how is it possible not to have generalized their views on what they had learnt about the theories they talk about? “Shut up and Calculate” would definitely appeal to a lot math minded there at the forefront of Cosmic Variance. But really, how…
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What are those Quantum Microstates
Now two points occupy my mind that hold questions as to what and how such counting can be done in terms of geometric propensity, that would allow these geometries into topological states. First point is: Lubos Motl said: We need to get closer to the “theory of everything”, regardless of the question whether the destination…
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What Lies Beneath
The Bottom up approach? R.B.Laughlin: The paper by Senthil et al. [9] is an attempt to address this issue mathematically. It deals specifically with a suspicion many of us have had that quark confinement, one of the most cherished features of the standard model, may be a collective effect that emerges at a phase transition…
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Unexpected High energies of Cosmic Rays
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Microstates and Gravity
Strominger: That was the problem we had to solve. In order to count microstates, you need a microscopic theory. Boltzmann had one–the theory of molecules. We needed a microscopic theory for black holes that had to have three characteristics: One, it had to include quantum mechanics. Two, it obviously had to include gravity, because black…
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Raychaudhuri Equation
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 this geometrical propensity to the tesserack, that he embued his art with higher religious context(time).…
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Larry Summers Issue Reveals Deeper Implications
All the informtaion is gathered material, that held the Larry Summers issue in context. I was revealing aspects of this issue on another level, that many would not have understood. I wanted to bring it together here because the understanding of rhythmns, is at the core of my belief system. I have expounded on this…
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Organization of Matter: The Theory of Everything
I looked at Sean Carroll’s blog on the thread on emergence and for me first principle was a dirty word to Robert Laughlin, and for many of us, the forms are the resulting framework of the organization of matter states, versus reductionistic attempts leading to the first building blocks of matter? Robert Betts Laughlin (born…
