Category Archives: Outside Time

Plato’s Problem and Meno: How Accurately Portrayed?

Posted on January 23, 2011 by PlatoHagel

SOCRATES: Then he who does not know may still have true notions of that which he does not know? MENO: He has. SOCRATES: And at present these notions have just been stirred up in him, as in a dream; but … Continue reading →

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Lessons in Life

Posted on January 7, 2011 by PlatoHagel

 For me there has to be a beginning for any object of presentation,  so that the understanding fully incorporates how one is looking at say “our skies historically” can be the seed of what matures tomorrow. While that process and … Continue reading →

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Time Dilation

Posted on December 9, 2010 by PlatoHagel

……. is a phenomenon (or two phenomena, as mentioned below) described by the theory of relativity. It can be illustrated by supposing that two observers are in motion relative to each other, or differently situated with regard to nearby gravitational … Continue reading →

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Thinking Outside the Box, People Like Veneziano, Turok and Penrose

Posted on December 5, 2010 by PlatoHagel

Credit: V.G.Gurzadyan and R.Penrose Dark circles indicate regions in space where the cosmic microwave background has temperature variations that are lower than average. The features hint that the universe was born long before the Big Bang 13.7 billion years ago … Continue reading →

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Holometer

Posted on December 2, 2010 by PlatoHagel

Holometer Revised This plot shows the sensitivity of various experiments to fluctuations in space and time. Horizontal axis is the log of apparatus size (or duration time the speed of light), in meters; vertical axis is the log of the … Continue reading →

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Quantum suicide and immortality

Posted on October 6, 2010 by PlatoHagel

But for the first time, quantum physicist Seth Lloyd of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology suggests that memories of entanglement can survive its destruction. He compares the effect to Emily Brontë’s novel Wuthering Heights: “the spectral Catherine communicates with her … Continue reading →

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Intelligent Life in the Universe?

Posted on April 27, 2010 by PlatoHagel

While Drake’s equation is a good basis for systematic investigations of signals from extraterrestrial intelligences, I care little about the admittedly scarce possibility that we ever receive positive news from our SETI searches. I care more about the fact that, … Continue reading →

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About Complexity

Posted on October 27, 2009 by PlatoHagel

Robert Betts Laughlin (born November 1, 1950) is a professor of Physics and Applied Physics at Stanford University who, together with Horst L. Störmer and Daniel C. Tsui, was awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize in physics for his explanation of … Continue reading →

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Where Susskind leaves off, Seth Lloyd begins

Posted on September 14, 2009 by PlatoHagel

A picture, a photograph, or a painting is not the real world that it depicts. It’s flat, not full with three dimensional depth like the real thing. Look at it from the side-almost edge on. It doesn’t look anything like … Continue reading →

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Oh Dear!… How Technology has Changed Things

Posted on February 21, 2009 by PlatoHagel

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 … Continue reading →

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