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Base Reality?

Posted on June 8, 2016 by PlatoHagel

Elon Musk, “There’s a one in billions chance we’re in base reality” Written by Jason Koebler, Motherboard. “The strongest argument for us being in a simulation, probably being in a simulation is the following: 40 years ago, we had pong, … Continue reading →

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Sean Carroll-The Big Picture: The Talk

Posted on May 25, 2016 by PlatoHagel

The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself. See Also: The Big Picture: The Talk Dialogos of Eide

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Information and Consciousness

Posted on May 9, 2016 by PlatoHagel

As I look deeper into ( Tegmark’s ideas I am wondering if such affective states as emotion do describe the fluidity of feeling as a discription of all emotive states of being. While consciousness is present in such a state … Continue reading →

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Paradigmatic Change as a Quantum Process

Posted on April 24, 2016 by PlatoHagel

Kuhn likened the change in the phenomenal world to the Gestalt-switch that occurs when one sees the duck-rabbit diagram first as (representing) a duck then as (representing) a rabbit, although he himself acknowledged that he was not sure whether the … Continue reading →

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Sonifying the Cern : p )

Posted on April 1, 2016 by PlatoHagel

Uploaded on Nov 6, 2010 *** By analyzing data from collisions in the LHC experiments then using music to translate what they see, scientists have been able to make out faint patterns that sound like well-known tunes. (Image: Daniel Dominguez/ … Continue reading →

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The Sound of Two Black Holes Colliding

Posted on February 21, 2016 by PlatoHagel

Audio Credit: Caltech/MIT/LIGO Lab  As the black holes spiral closer and closer in together, the frequency of the gravitational waves increases. Scientists call these sounds “chirps,” because some events that generate gravitation waves would sound like a bird’s chirp. See: … Continue reading →

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Sunyaev–Zel’dovich effect

Posted on February 20, 2016 by PlatoHagel

The Sunyaev–Zel’dovich effect (often abbreviated as the SZ effect) is the result of high energy electrons distorting the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB) through inverse Compton scattering, in which the low energy CMB photons receive an average energy boost during … Continue reading →

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BICEP 3

Posted on February 18, 2016 by PlatoHagel

See: Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation – Sixty Symbols *** See: BICEP: Robinson Gravitational Wave Background Telescope *** See Also: Science Dialogos of Eide

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No-Hair Theorem

Posted on February 17, 2016 by PlatoHagel

The no-hair theorem postulates that all black hole solutions of the Einstein-Maxwell equations of gravitation and electromagnetism in general relativity can be completely characterized by only three externally observable classical parameters: mass, electric charge, and angular momentum.[1] All other information … Continue reading →

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Is Gravity Now part of the Standard Model?

Posted on February 17, 2016 by PlatoHagel

I leave this as a open question as I will be compiling information in this regard. If the initial configuration of the source is being transmitted as gravitational waves then this is also part of “other information” being traversed through … Continue reading →

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