Category Archives: Self Evident

The Differences

Posted on March 7, 2009 by PlatoHagel

Phil:….yet more importantly it is only in difference that often times much is learned. IT is appropriate that such a point( self evident) in terms of “differences” is brought forward here for introspection, as a “inductive recognition of our journey’s … Continue reading →

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Stargazers and Hill Climbers

Posted on February 13, 2009 by PlatoHagel

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 … Continue reading →

Posted in Kip Thorne, Plato, Plato's Cave, Self Evident, Sir Roger Penrose, Socratic Method, Stephen Hawking, Theory of Everything, TOE | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 26 Comments

SuperCritical Fluid

Posted on January 11, 2009 by PlatoHagel

What choice do I have but to quote myself.:) At 11:47 AM, January 09, 2009, Blogger Plato said… Superfluous is a mathematical construct for sure. Continuity, asked not from the condense matter theorist point of view as Jacque’s remind, or, … Continue reading →

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Fear and Ignorance

Posted on October 16, 2008 by PlatoHagel

This is a very significant physical result because it tells us that the energy of a system described by a harmonic oscillator potential cannot have zero energy. Physical systems such as atoms in a solid lattice or in polyatomic molecules … Continue reading →

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William Thurston

Posted on August 8, 2008 by PlatoHagel

Xianfeng David Gu and Shing-Tung YauTo a topologist, a rabbit is the same as a sphere. Neither has a hole. Longitude and latitude lines on the rabbit allow mathematicians to map it onto different forms while preserving information. William Thurston … Continue reading →

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The Inconceivable being Believable

Posted on July 28, 2008 by PlatoHagel

While string theory does not, at this point, predict our world, it can at the very least plausibly encompass it. No other theory has been shown to do that. Aaron Bergman’s book review of Peter Woit’s I think there is … Continue reading →

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The Geologist and the Mathematician

Posted on July 12, 2008 by PlatoHagel

In an ordinary 2-sphere, any loop can be continuously tightened to a point on the surface. Does this condition characterize the 2-sphere? The answer is yes, and it has been known for a long time. The Poincaré conjecture asks the … Continue reading →

Posted in HENRI POINCARE, Mandelstam, Pascal, Self Evident, Topology | Tagged , , , , | 20 Comments

Mathematical Structure of the Universe

Posted on June 17, 2008 by PlatoHagel

Although Aristotle in general had a more empirical and experimental attitude than Plato, modern science did not come into its own until Plato’s Pythagorean confidence in the mathematical nature of the world returned with Kepler, Galileo, and Newton. For instance, … Continue reading →

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Who said it?

Posted on June 8, 2008 by PlatoHagel

At this point in the development, although geometry provided a common framework for all the forces, there was still no way to complete the unification by combining quantum theory and general relativity. Since quantum theory deals with the very small … Continue reading →

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SuperFluids

Posted on June 4, 2008 by PlatoHagel

MIT physicists create new form of matter by Lori Valigra, Special to MIT News Office June 22, 2005 A superfluid gas can flow without resistance. It can be clearly distinguished from a normal gas when it is rotated. A normal … Continue reading →

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