Category Archives: Vilenkin

The Multiverse is like a….Flower?

Posted on February 16, 2007 by PlatoHagel

Alexander Vilenkin The implications of inflation are particularly important in the context of the landscape of string theory. One of the leading researchers studying how inflationary cosmology evolves through the landscape is Alex Vilenkin, a theoretical physicist at Tufts who … Continue reading →

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Cosmic ray spallation

Posted on December 20, 2006 by PlatoHagel

As this NASA chart indicates, 70 percent or more of the universe consists of dark energy, about which we know next to nothing Other explanations of dark energy, called “quintessence,” originate from theoretical high-energy physics. In addition to baryons, photons, … Continue reading →

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Are Strangelets Natural?

Posted on September 30, 2006 by PlatoHagel

Thus RHIC is in a certain sense a string theory testing machine, analyzing the formation and decay of dual black holes, and giving information about the black hole interior. It is important that you look at the date of this … Continue reading →

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Hydrogen, and the Law of Octaves

Posted on September 23, 2006 by PlatoHagel

<a href="http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/vilenkin06/vilenkin06_index.html&quot; target=_BLank title="The Edge-THE PRINCIPLE OF MEDIOCRITY [9.15.06]By Alexander Vilenkin”> Alex Vilenkin – Many Worlds in One article by Mark of Cosmic Variance drew my interest again after reading with a new perspective gained from understandng some implications about … Continue reading →

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Writing Your Story of Creation?

Posted on May 19, 2006 by PlatoHagel

“No container is available, and the vaporization must occur in vacuum.” Wozniak With all that energy concentrated in a space about the size of an atomic nucleus, the colliding ions, for a tiny fraction of a second, will reach a … Continue reading →

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