Category Archives: String Theory

So string theory is, among many other things, a theory of gravity!

Posted on March 7, 2005 by PlatoHagel

Daniel Kabat A picture of flux lines in QED (left) and QCD (right). Although it didn’t properly describe strong interactions, in studying string theory physicists stumbled upon an amazing mathematical structure. String theory has turned out to be far richer … Continue reading →

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Brane New World

Posted on March 3, 2005 by PlatoHagel

If some thought is beyond comprehensible to engage string theory and come away with some simple statement about it, imagine if we are taken to the new heights that Brane New World might implicate. But first, having understood something about … Continue reading →

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Missing Energy Events

Posted on March 1, 2005 by PlatoHagel

‘There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there. All great discoveries have involved such a leap. The important thing is not to stop questioning.’ Albert Einstein(1879- 1955) … Continue reading →

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Nothingness?

Posted on February 28, 2005 by PlatoHagel

If you assume something always had to exist, then to me, this statement of nothingness is quite puzzling to me. The most surprising difference for the quantum case is the so-called zero-point vibration” of the n=0 ground state. This implies … Continue reading →

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Timeline

Posted on February 16, 2005 by PlatoHagel

There are reasons for this theme, that I thought most appropriate to the discussion of illusion and miracles. In the thread previous to this one, a concept is put forward by Arkani-Hamed that focuses on the issue of the timeline … Continue reading →

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HIgher Dimensions Without the Geometry?

Posted on February 13, 2005 by PlatoHagel

In Illusions and Miracles I became concerned with what the mind’s capabilties which could encounter fifth dimensional views. That such examples were needed, and found in relation to Thomas Banchoff. Having understood the early development from Euclidean perspective, our furthered … Continue reading →

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Organization of Matter: The Theory of Everything

Posted on February 10, 2005 by PlatoHagel

I looked at Sean Carroll’s blog on the thread on emergence and for me first principle was a dirty word to Robert Laughlin, and for many of us, the forms are the resulting framework of the organization of matter states, … Continue reading →

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Blackhole Production and Sonluminence

Posted on February 9, 2005 by PlatoHagel

John Ellis:The quark-gluon plasma – if it exists and is being produced at RHIC – is considerably more complicated than was thought a few years ago. It seems to be an almost perfect, strongl-interacting fluid with very low viscosity. Theoretically, … Continue reading →

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When Gravity Becomes Strong……

Posted on February 8, 2005 by PlatoHagel

The value of non-Euclidean geometry lies in its ability to liberate us from preconceived ideas in preparation for the time when exploration of physical laws might demand some geometry other than the Euclidean. Bernhard Riemann It is very important that … Continue reading →

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Symmetry and Symmetry Breaking

Posted on February 4, 2005 by PlatoHagel

Harmonices Mundi <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Kepler&quot; target=_blank title="Harmonice Mundi (Latin: Harmony of the Worlds, 1619) is a book by Johannes Kepler. It attempts to explain proportions and geometry in planetary motions by relating them to musical scales and intervals. According to Kepler, … Continue reading →

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