Category Archives: String Theory

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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Liminocentric Structures: Which Circle do you Belong Too?

Posted on July 10, 2005 by PlatoHagel

If conceived as a series of ever-wider experiential contexts, nested one within the other like a set of Chinese boxes, consciousness can be thought of as wrapping back around on itself in such a way that the outermost ‘context’ is … Continue reading →

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Expansitory Valuation of a Circle with Gravity?

Posted on July 5, 2005 by PlatoHagel

If conceived as a series of ever-wider experiential contexts, nested one within the other like a set of Chinese boxes, consciousness can be thought of as wrapping back around on itself in such a way that the outermost ‘context’ is … Continue reading →

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String Connection?

Posted on June 30, 2005 by PlatoHagel

The possibility of a connection between string theory and RHIC collisions is unexpected and exhilarating,” Dr. Orbach said. “String theory seeks to unify the two great intellectual achievements of twentieth-century physics, general relativity and quantum mechanics, and it may well … Continue reading →

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Special Lagrangian geometry

Posted on June 29, 2005 by PlatoHagel

Dr. Mark Haskins On a wider class of complex manifolds – the so-called Calabi-Yau manifolds – there is also a natural notion of special Lagrangian geometry. Since the late 1980s these Calabi-Yau manifolds have played a prominent role in developments … Continue reading →

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Gravity Leakage: Energy Accounted for in LHC Predictions?

Posted on June 14, 2005 by PlatoHagel

If people were going to do test runs and predictions, how would they fair before the process is up and running? Lubos Motl: What does he say about the cosmological constant? Well, it does not exist. The accelerating expansion of … Continue reading →

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Search for Extra-dimensions with ATLAS at the LHC: The Lions Den

Posted on June 12, 2005 by PlatoHagel

I have often wonder whether or not my opinions about left and right aspect battling in society, are right?:) Peter Woit saids string theory is right wing financed? I hate to dread that media has been perversive enough in order … Continue reading →

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Wunderkammern

Posted on June 1, 2005 by PlatoHagel

For me this is a wonderful view of abstraction, that had gone into model making, to help those less inclined to “the visonistic qualities of those same abstractions.” Shown here are the models in the mathematical wunderkammer located in the … Continue reading →

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