Category Archives: Steve Giddings

WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE DEEP, ELEGANT, OR BEAUTIFUL EXPLANATION?

Posted on January 15, 2012 by PlatoHagel

Scientists’ greatest pleasure comes from theories that derive the solution to some deep puzzle from a small set of simple principles in a surprising way. These explanations are called “beautiful” or “elegant”. Historical examples are Kepler’s explanation of complex planetary … Continue reading →

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Production of Gravitational Waves

Posted on September 29, 2007 by PlatoHagel

“My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky.”William Wordsworth— My Heart Leaps Up This post is based on “the production” and not the detection of gravitational waves. It does serve it’s purpose, that I explain what … Continue reading →

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Blackhole Creations

Posted on January 5, 2006 by PlatoHagel

Steve W Your paper linked: STUDY OF POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS EVENTSDURING HEAVY-ION COLLISIONS AT THE LHC:REPORT OF THE LHC SAFETY STUDY GROUP Cosmic Rays 2.21 Cosmic-ray processes reach the energies and energy densities that will be encountered at the LHC and, … Continue reading →

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Calming the Fears by Making Aware

Posted on January 14, 2005 by PlatoHagel

If we discover the Planck scale near the TeV scale, this will represent the most profound discovery in physics in a century, and black hole production will be the most spectacular evidence of that new discovery It is important to … Continue reading →

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Tiny Blackholes in Cosmic Observations?

Posted on January 11, 2005 by PlatoHagel

205th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society 9-13 January 2005 — San Diego, CA I am kind of interested to find further information on how microstate blackholes might have been generated and looking at the concentration of minds, I wonder … Continue reading →

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