Category Archives: Susskind

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 →

Posted in Alchemists, Cosmology, Emotion, Entropy, Flowers, geometries, Induction, Landscape, M Theory, Mathematics, Nothing, Particles, Socratic Method, Sound, Standard model, String Theory, Sun, Susskind, Sylvester Surfaces, WunderKammern | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Roots, and the Rings of History

Posted on February 26, 2006 by PlatoHagel

The jump from conventional field theories of point-like objects to a theory of one-dimensional objects has striking implications. The vibration spectrum of the string contains a massless spin-2 particle: the graviton. Its long wavelength interactions are described by Einstein’s theory … Continue reading →

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Nature in Analog Models

Posted on February 25, 2006 by PlatoHagel

Plato: “For everyone, as I think, must see that astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.” Oh! how complete our world view would be, that I have moved quickly to the very … Continue reading →

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Hyperspace

Posted on January 24, 2006 by PlatoHagel

Science is that human activity in which we aim to show towards nature that respect that in a democracy we endeavor to show towards each other.” There is no doubt my views are biased. For all the wrong reasons I … Continue reading →

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Tiny Bubbles

Posted on December 27, 2005 by PlatoHagel

AS a child, Einsten when given the gift of the compass, immediately reocgnized the mystery in nature? If such a impression could have instigated the work that had unfolded over timein regards to Relativity, then what work could have ever … Continue reading →

Posted in Bubbles, Dimension, Einstein, General Relativity, Genus Figures, geometries, HENRI POINCARE, KK Tower, Landscape, Non Euclidean, Particles, Riemann Hypothesis, Superfluids, Susskind | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 2 Comments

Our Own Quiet Spaces

Posted on December 18, 2005 by PlatoHagel

Given that it is basically creationism with a new brand name not sure I need to. Now while those who delve into the Kansas this and that, I don’t want too, by association seem to be supporting or not, while … Continue reading →

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Why this Universe?

Posted on December 17, 2005 by PlatoHagel

Sea of Virtual Particles http://fermat.nap.edu/openbook/0309074061/gifmid/19.gif Who is to deny that such processes incorporated into our views of today would not have drawn the cosmologist and the deeper intracies of physics, to point to our nature and it’s beginnings in our … Continue reading →

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Grue and Bleen

Posted on December 16, 2005 by PlatoHagel

Brian Greene: In the late 1960s a young Italian physicist, named Gabriele Veneziano, was searching for a set of equations that would explain the strong nuclear force, the extremely powerful glue that holds the nucleus of every atom together binding … Continue reading →

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Paul Dirac and Geometrical Thinking?

Posted on November 17, 2005 by PlatoHagel

Into the Antiworld was originally staged at CERN inside the underground cavern that houses the Delphi experiment, in which collisions between electrons and their antiparticles – positrons – are studied. That setting must have been awe-inspiring, particularly as the show … Continue reading →

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Explanation on the Landscape

Posted on August 15, 2005 by PlatoHagel

Photograph by Clifford Johnson While on Cosmic Invariance, Clifford brings a much needed attempt at explanation on how we view the landscape. I’ll have to spend sometime going over this becuase it is a critical position and difference between two … Continue reading →

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