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  • What’s in a Name?

    The aim of dialogue in the academy is not merely to just state or assert one’s opinion. Simply asserting one’s opinion to one another has more in common with two dogs barking at each another than two people engaging in dialogue. The aim of dialogue is rather to defend or argue for one’s opinion against…

  • Let no one destitute of geometry enter my doors.

    “Gravity cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. Albert Einstein” Some ruminations seem to settle in my mind, yet held by a wanting of scientific principal and treaty? Where in such a misinterpretation materialized that I could have gone this way and that about a condition that is subjective, yet, considered in relativistic…

  • Oh Dear!… How Technology has Changed Things

    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…

  • Stargazers and Hill Climbers

    AS with Einstein, who was Socrates daemon?:) In Plato’s Apology of Socrates, Socrates claimed to have a daimonion (literally, a “divine something”)[6] that frequently warned him – in the form of a “voice” – against mistakes but never told him what to do See:Fullerane and Allotropes Some may even call “hills” mountains. Depends on where…

  • γνώθι σεαυτόν

    A stained glass window with the contracted version γνωθι σαυτόν. The saying “Know thyself” may refer by extension to the ideal of understanding human behavior, morals, and thought, because ultimately to understand oneself is to understand other humans as well. However, the ancient Greek philosophers thought that no man can ever comprehend the human spirit…

  • Foundational Issues

    Mathematics Problem That Remains Elusive — And Beautiful By Raymond Petersen Dyson, one of the most highly-regarded scientists of his time, poignantly informed the young man that his findings into the distribution of prime numbers corresponded with the spacing and distribution of energy levels of a higher-ordered quantum state See:Riemann Hypothesis: A Pure Love of…

  • First Principals of Quantum Mechanics

    Of course the discussions are leading me to gather my thoughts on things, as they are being spoken too, by Bloggingheads. A Life of the Genius Ramanujanby Robert Kanigel Srinivas Ramanujan (1887-1920)In the past few decades, we have witnessed how Ramanujan’s contributions have made such a profound impact on various branches of mathematics. The book,…

  • Factoids and Censorship

    Often taking the time to absorbed the full perspective of the writer is just as much an effort as it is to understand the nature and understanding of research and information development about a topic. Where that writer leaves off. Bradbury on FAHRENHEIT 451 See also at Home with Ray What space has this writer…

  • Glaucon

    Glaucon (Greek: Γλαύκων) (born circa 445 BC) son of Ariston, was the philosopher Plato’s older brother. He is primarily known as a major conversant with Socrates in the Republic (Plato), and the questioner during the Allegory of the Cave. He is also referenced briefly in the beginnings of the dialogues of Plato Parmenides (Plato) and…

  • WE ARE A HEAVENLY FLOWER

    AND we should consider that God gave the sovereign part of the human soul to be the divinity of each one, being that part which, as we say, dwells at the top of the body, inasmuch as we are a plant not of an earthly but of a heavenly growth, raises us from earth to…

  • Craftsman of Plato

    Time is of your own making; its clock ticks in your head. The moment you stop thought time too stops dead. Angelus Silesius See Status of Warp Drive Smolin had some deep questions and relevance “about” time? :) Some “updates” within this article. Mainly for all those “couch potatoes” who watch Law and Order. I…