Category Archives: String Theory

Quark Soup: Applied Superstring Theory

Posted on February 10, 2011 by PlatoHagel

Author(s)Alex Buche–University of Western Ontario / Perimeter Institute Robert Myers-Perimeter Institute Aninda Sinha-Perimeter Institute Quark Soup: Applied Superstring Theory It is believed that in the first few microseconds after the Big Bang, our universe was dominated by a strongly interacting … Continue reading →

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String Theory and the Real World

Posted on January 21, 2011 by PlatoHagel

To be sure, the majority of research into string theory is not focused on how the theory connects to the real world; rather, most physicists are exploring questions at a more theoretical level. Such formal work is necessary, because as … Continue reading →

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Measure and Half Measures

Posted on December 27, 2010 by PlatoHagel

Pythagoras, the man in the center with the book, teaching music, in The School of Athens by Raphael Most of  you will recognize the partial image of the much larger I have used as the heading of this blog. The … Continue reading →

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Presenting a New Theoretical Position

Posted on May 27, 2008 by PlatoHagel

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.Walt Disney Here’s the thing that I would caution such a quote, that any work can produce results, but, if we leave life unattended, the future is … Continue reading →

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Stringy Geometry

Posted on March 8, 2008 by PlatoHagel

fancier way of saying that is that in general, it’s okay to model the space around us using the Euclidean metric. But the Euclidean model stops working when gravity becomes strong, as we’ll see later. The Euclidean model for space … Continue reading →

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Zombie Central

Posted on December 30, 2007 by PlatoHagel

Peter Woit:Hopefully Nature won’t take its place as Zombie-central… December 30th, 2007 at 11:10 am if link deleted(yep! it sure has:) see here Plato said, “I have never deviated from the name I use, so you get the sense of … Continue reading →

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String Theory Crib Sheet

Posted on April 22, 2007 by PlatoHagel

http://seedmagazine.com/images/uploads/cribsheet9.pdf My wife and I are in transient, so I am posting this from my oldest daughters home. We head back to our home town and set up for living for the next month in new travel trailer we purchased. … Continue reading →

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Blackhole Horizon, "as a Hill?"

Posted on April 2, 2007 by PlatoHagel

Physically, the effect can be interpreted as an object moving from the “false vacuum” (where = 0) to the more stable “true vacuum” (where = v). Gravitationally, it is similar to the more familiar case of moving from the hilltop … Continue reading →

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Angels and Demons on a Pinhead

Posted on February 7, 2007 by PlatoHagel

“Observations always involve theory.”Edwin Hubble Curvature Parameters Of course I had to point to the cosmological understanding that took us to this “geometrical understanding of things that are large.” But this is to be short, while I crunch the thoughts … Continue reading →

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The Sun’s Before Us

Posted on January 2, 2007 by PlatoHagel

The Cosmic Ray of Creation We are “shadows” of the Sun’s creations. Sometimes it good to go back to “the beginning” so that one can see the context of what exists in reality, has a much “greater story to tell” … Continue reading →

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