Category Archives: Mathematics

Is Line , Hook and Sinker, Dimensionally Leading to Soul Food?

Posted on November 21, 2004 by PlatoHagel

Oskar Klein (left) proposed in the 1920s that hidden spatial dimensions might influence observed physics. He poses with physicists George Uhlenbeck (middle) and Samuel Goudsmit in 1926 at the University of Leiden, the Netherlands. AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives I … Continue reading →

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Plato as a City Slicker

Posted on November 20, 2004 by PlatoHagel

You all know the saying of this one thing, right? The rest of the Republic answers this challenge. It does so by way of an analogy. Socrates says that it is difficult to distinguish what is going on in the … Continue reading →

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Are Strings as Spacetime an Emergent Phenomena?

Posted on November 16, 2004 by PlatoHagel

One thing I can tell you, though, is that most string theorist’s suspect that spacetime is a emergent Phenomena in the language of condensed matter physics. Above Witten asks a legitmate question, and so does Gerard t’Hooft as shown in … Continue reading →

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Pythagoras Could be Called the First Known String Theorist

Posted on November 5, 2004 by PlatoHagel

Pythagoras could be called the first known string theorist. Pythagoras, an excellent lyre player, figured out the first known string physics — the harmonic relationship. Pythagoras realized that vibrating Lyre strings of equal tensions but different lengths would produce harmonious … Continue reading →

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Plato: Mathematics Would Reveal the Structure of the World

Posted on November 5, 2004 by PlatoHagel

We should ask why Plato’s theory is so progressive, why Aristotle’s is so archaic, and why Plato is usually given so little credit for his theory. The answer to all these is the same: Plato comes up with this kind … Continue reading →

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