Category Archives: Socratic Method

The Ring of Truth

Posted on November 14, 2007 by PlatoHagel

Savas Dimopoulos:Here’s an analogy to understand this: imagine that our universe is a two-dimensional pool table, which you look down on from the third spatial dimension. When the billiard balls collide on the table, they scatter into new trajectories across … Continue reading →

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Whose who, in the School of Athens

Posted on January 29, 2007 by PlatoHagel

I was over visiting Clifford’s blog called Asymptotia this morning and notice a blog entry called, Heretics of Alexandria. Of course, what first came to mind is the “Library of Alexandria.” Clifford writes and paraphrases: This full length drama, set … Continue reading →

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Universal Library

Posted on December 11, 2006 by PlatoHagel

Commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred.Ralph Waldo Emerson “It is perhaps the oldest university in the world.” Can you imagine if one might have been restricted from the museums … Continue reading →

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Bacon is Shakespeare?

Posted on November 19, 2006 by PlatoHagel

A modern day puzzle, becomes, blogger world signatures? Taken to a, “Whole….nother….Level. Creativity? Ways in which we allow “information” to travel through? Play the game? Allow “ingenuity” as the “poetic river that flows” to the surface on you, from everything, … Continue reading →

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Raphael the Painter

Posted on October 25, 2006 by PlatoHagel

By ‘dilating’ and ‘expanding’ the scope of our attention we not only discover that ‘form is emptiness’ (the donut has a hole), but also that ’emptiness is form’ (objects precipitate out of the larger ‘space’) – to use Buddhist terminology. … Continue reading →

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The Continuing Saga?

Posted on October 19, 2006 by PlatoHagel

It was Socrates’ turn to look puzzled. Oh, wake up. You know what chaos is. Simple deterministic dynamics leading to irregular, random-looking behavior. Butterfly effect. That stuff. Of course, I know that, Socrates said in irritation. No, it was the … Continue reading →

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That "light Bulb" was the Sun?

Posted on October 6, 2006 by PlatoHagel

Plato: It was important for me to reveal how I am seeing the cosmo. How the superhighway has been spoken too, in regards to the Langrange points.These points are lead to and from unstable orbits. Points, where gravity balances out … Continue reading →

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Ways IN which To Percieve Landscape?

Posted on March 20, 2006 by PlatoHagel

What a Cosmologist Wants from a String Theorist? Emotion versus Reason? 3.1 As Cytowic notes, Plato and Socrates viewed emotion and reason as in a kind of struggle, one in which it was vitally important for reason to win out. … Continue reading →

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Initial Condition Determinations allow Predictability?

Posted on January 25, 2005 by PlatoHagel

The Lorenz Attractor One of the basis of using string theory to me, was to identify, the initial conditions? It would be like talking about the weather to me that we could engage such a topic as strings and then … Continue reading →

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The Butterfly Effect

Posted on November 20, 2004 by PlatoHagel

The “Butterfly Effect” is the propensity of a system to be sensitive to initial conditions.Such systems over time become unpredictable,this idea gave rise to the notion of a butterfly flapping it’s wings in one area of the world,causing a tornado … Continue reading →

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