Category Archives: Smolin

Explanation on the Landscape

Posted on August 15, 2005 by PlatoHagel

Photograph by Clifford Johnson While on Cosmic Invariance, Clifford brings a much needed attempt at explanation on how we view the landscape. I’ll have to spend sometime going over this becuase it is a critical position and difference between two … Continue reading →

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STRINGS ’05 PUBLIC LECTURES

Posted on August 11, 2005 by PlatoHagel

Peter Woit: Dijkgraaf’s talk was completely standard string evangelism, and except for a couple slides mentioning D-branes and black holes, could easily have been given, completely unchanged, twenty years ago. Sometimes if you do not do this assessment for the … Continue reading →

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The Fifth Dimension, is the Spacetime Fabric

Posted on August 9, 2005 by PlatoHagel

Perhaps Quantum Gravity can be Handled by thoroughly reconsidering Quantum Mechanics itself? by Gerard t’ Hooft I was attracted to Nigel Cook’s statement on Peter Woits blog entitled, “Panel Discussion Video” by the quote of his taken here below. What … Continue reading →

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Shakespearean Quandry Has Limits

Posted on July 29, 2005 by PlatoHagel

As a measure how far can this be taken? Some like to think like Smolin, and Smolin’s reference to Glast is a important one:)This defines his limits. Others, have decided to go beyond this.:) Dialogos of Eide

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Lee Smolin’s Case for Background Independence

Posted on July 27, 2005 by PlatoHagel

While we were privy to the debate between Susskind and Smolin in a previous post, the origins and definitions have been drawn from the deeper requirements of an ideology. Where do these begin, and we find the inner compulsion of … Continue reading →

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Kilometric Radiation?

Posted on July 26, 2005 by PlatoHagel

So we use physics in ways to change the way we see? Here are some examles from the Cassini Project and Wikipedia. Cassini Plasma Spectrometer (CAPS) The Cassini Plasma Spectrometer (CAPS) is a direct sensing instrument that measures the energy … Continue reading →

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The Black Hole Final State

Posted on July 24, 2005 by PlatoHagel

Mathematics is not the rigid and rigidity-producing schema that the layman thinks it is; rather, in it we find ourselves at that meeting point of constraint and freedom that is the very essence of human nature. – Hermann Weyl It … Continue reading →

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John Venn

Posted on June 17, 2005 by PlatoHagel

The early historical work can be derived from personages. Helps sometimes to illucidate the avenue and abtractions that seem only fitted for the abstract mind? Do people like to deal with such issues? I am finding that as I am … Continue reading →

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Could "Chaos" have been Implied in the Quantum Harmonic Oscillator, as Supersymmetry?

Posted on June 16, 2005 by PlatoHagel

See:Quantum Harmonic Oscillators Fortunately being the junior here in knowledge comprehension, the benefits, as of my having wrongly thought a certain way, allows “fantasy a great journey.” I have wondered, could I have ever attained such insights that would awaken … Continue reading →

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The Trigger

Posted on June 11, 2005 by PlatoHagel

Since there exist in this four dimensional structure [space-time] no longer any sections which represent “now” objectively, the concepts of happening and becoming are indeed not completely suspended, but yet complicated. It appears therefore more natural to think of physical … Continue reading →

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