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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…

  • Venn Logic and TA

    I always lke to inject a piece of my young child’s perspective, becuase it helps explain things a bit about “the neighborshood.” As we move through them. He asked me about the neighborhood that we were moving too, as if, that was the world. That was his question. “Is this the World,” Dad? He was…

  • Getting Ducks in a Row

    Energising the quest for ‘big theory’ By Paul Rincon We are at a point where experiments must guide us, we cannot make progress without them,” explains Jim Virdee, a particle physicist at Imperial College London Good to see Joanne contributions here as well as Marks. Even though Dissident throws up tidbits for the “unlikely scenario…

  • Has Speed of Light changed Recently?

    You have to remember I am not as well educated as the rest of the leaque connected at Peter Woit’s site. But how could one think anything less, then what perception can contribute, as less then what the educated mind might have thought of? If it did not have the scope enlisted by others in…

  • Satellites Can Glide But Bee’s Can’t?

    I just wanted to clarify my statements in regards to the association I made In Bumble Bee Rotations. If you understood the “easiest route/shortest distance” in which to travel, how can a satellite be propelled along pathways, with the least resistance? You had to be able to see properly, and in a abstract sense? If…

  • Bumblebee Wing Rotations and Dancing

    The Bumble Be, Mentality So what is the Gluon that binds?:) For introduction sake, I might have deviated from Sean Carroll’s ideas about the, “what science doesn’t know” and traded it for mechanical systems interpretations, and the way we can write comprehension forms from such patterns inherent? It always comes down to the lesson of…

  • General Relativity

    I took GR because I thought Neil Turok was dreeeamy. Well I dunno? He certainly got me thinking about brane world collisions, along with steinhardt, that’s for sure. We are most certainly dealing with a cosmological placement here with General relativity, but has been extended, as we look at string/M theoretical successes. You had to…

  • Foundations of Mathematic

    Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beautya beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trappings of painting or music, yet sublimely pure, and capable of a stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show. The true spirit…

  • The 5th Dimension and the Networld

    Hi Darwin, You thought my statement foolish, about Immanuel Kant? Instead of Darwin I thought maybe you might envision yourself as Aristotle, as you stand beside me, under the “arche.”:) That what religion does is build concrete things, and so to models, for apprehension. If you stand and look at the room, why would I…

  • Unity of disparate Pieces

    damptdweller: Even if you take the string theorists viewpoint that the energy may “leak” away into a brane instead of actually disappearing I think I’m correct in saying that you still need to ensure that energy is conserved regardless. Plato:While some might of thought it “dreamy,” there is a direct physics correlation to that leaking…

  • Developement of Disbelief

    As you read, hold on to the thought about stringy/M theory developement. Richard Denton: I discovered that it was simply philosophy on its own that had played the very much larger role in the gradual erosion of belief. This is a interesting statement to me since some scientists might think that to have even included…