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Conversations on Mind, Matter, and Mathematics

Posted on April 10, 2011 by PlatoHagel

  The original Socratic dialogues were artificially constructed to present a coherent view. The dialogue between Connes and Changeux is quite different. It is the recording of real-life arguments where the speakers are frequently at cross-purposes and operate in different … Continue reading →

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Invariant Mass Distribution of Jet Pairs

Posted on April 8, 2011 by PlatoHagel

Invariant Mass Distribution of Jet Pairs Produced in Association with a W boson in proton-antiproton Collisions at sqrt(s) = 1.96 TeV The di-jet invariant mass distribution for candidate events selected in an analysis of W+2 jet events. The black points … Continue reading →

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Concentration as a Power of Perceiving

Posted on March 30, 2011 by PlatoHagel

The river Pregel divides the town of Konigsberg into four separate land masses, A, B, C, and D. Seven bridges connect the various parts of town, and some of the town’s curious citizens wondered if it were possible to take … Continue reading →

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A Microscope on a Macroscopic World?

Posted on March 12, 2011 by PlatoHagel

“Nothing to me would be more poetic; no outcome would be more graceful … than for us to confirm our theories of the ultramicroscopic makeup of spacetime and matter by turning our giant telescopes skyward and gazing at the stars,” … Continue reading →

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New View of Family Life in the North American Nebula

Posted on February 11, 2011 by PlatoHagel

This swirling landscape of stars is known as the North American nebula. In visible light, the region resembles North America, but in this new infrared view from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, the continent disappears. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech See: New View … Continue reading →

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Triggering a Wave of Star Formation.

Posted on February 9, 2011 by PlatoHagel

Arp 147 contains a spiral galaxy (right) that collided with an elliptical galaxy (left), triggering a wave of star formation. Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/MIT/S.Rappaport et al, Optical: NASA/STScI       See:Triggering a Wave of Star Formation. Dialogos of Eide

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Intricacies of Perspective

Posted on January 13, 2011 by PlatoHagel

“Thus (through perspective) every sort of confusion is revealed within us; and this is that weakness of the human mind on which the art of conjuring and of deceiving by light and shadow and other ingenious devices imposes, having an … Continue reading →

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The Penrose interpretation

Posted on December 10, 2010 by PlatoHagel

 ……….is a prediction of Sir Roger Penrose about the mass scale at which standard quantum mechanics will fail. This idea is inspired by quantum gravity, because it uses both the physical constants and .Penrose’s idea is a variant of objective … Continue reading →

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Quantum superposition

Posted on December 10, 2010 by PlatoHagel

Quantum mechanics Uncertainty principle Introduction · Mathematical formulations [show]Background Classical mechanicsOld quantum theoryInterference · Bra-ket notationHamiltonian [hide]Fundamental concepts Quantum state · Wave functionSuperposition · EntanglementComplementarity · Duality · UncertaintyMeasurement · ExclusionDecoherence · Ehrenfest theorem · Tunnelling [show]Experiments Double-slit experimentDavisson–Germer experimentStern–Gerlach experimentBell’s inequality experimentPopper’s experimentSchrödinger’s catElitzur–Vaidman bomb-testerQuantum eraser [show]Formulations Schrödinger … Continue reading →

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Primum movens

Posted on September 29, 2010 by PlatoHagel

Until all are one! Primus to his children, “Trap“ Primus is the “benevolent” godlike entity in the fictional Transformers comic universe who fought against the Chaos-Bringer Unicron.  *** Primum movens (Latin), usually referred to as the First Cause in English, … Continue reading →

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