Category Archives: Witten

Langlands Duality

Posted on October 8, 2005 by PlatoHagel

Appointed to Princeton as an instructor after completing his doctoral studies, Langlands taught there for seven years and was promoted to associate professor. He spent 1964-65 at the University of California, Berkeley as a Miller Foundation Fellow and an Alfred … Continue reading →

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What Lies Beneath

Posted on August 23, 2005 by PlatoHagel

The Bottom up approach? R.B.Laughlin: The paper by Senthil et al. [9] is an attempt to address this issue mathematically. It deals specifically with a suspicion many of us have had that quark confinement, one of the most cherished features … Continue reading →

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"Lightening," as Strings, Strike?

Posted on May 30, 2005 by PlatoHagel

With a “supersymmetrical realization” capable of being disemminated in the brain? What could have manifested from it’s beginning? To have nature exemplify this greater potential “for new airs to breath life ” into other possibilties of minds constructs “real objects” … Continue reading →

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Vision

Posted on March 25, 2005 by PlatoHagel

It’s no secret now, that I see where symbols are very important in the analysis of complex structures, once modeled. Might move the definition of everything we had encountered, from that model assumption. One had to know that Michio Kaku … Continue reading →

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Emergence= Phase Transitions of Symmetry?

Posted on March 22, 2005 by PlatoHagel

Witten said: One thing I can tell you, though, is that most string theorist’s suspect that spacetime is a emergent Phenomena in the language of condensed matter physics. Part of the difficulty was realizing that the end result of a … Continue reading →

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Space-Tearing Conifold Transitions

Posted on March 18, 2005 by PlatoHagel

Many years ago in my doodling, I created some comparisons to what I would have percieved in describing a point, line and plane. To me, I wanted to find a way to describe this point amidst a vast background of … Continue reading →

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Is Special Relativity Wrong?

Posted on January 21, 2005 by PlatoHagel

New Physics? Possible violations of Lorentz invariance are an ideal signal of new physics because nothing in the Standard Model of particle physics permits the violation of special relativity. Therefore, no conventional process could ever mimic or cover up a … Continue reading →

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Quantum Geometry

Posted on December 9, 2004 by PlatoHagel

Mathematics is not the rigid and rigidity-producing schema that the layman thinks it is; rather, in it we find ourselves at that meeting point of constraint and freedom that is the very essence of human nature. – Hermann Weyl I … Continue reading →

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Plato as a City Slicker

Posted on November 20, 2004 by PlatoHagel

You all know the saying of this one thing, right? The rest of the Republic answers this challenge. It does so by way of an analogy. Socrates says that it is difficult to distinguish what is going on in the … Continue reading →

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Self-Organization of Matter

Posted on November 16, 2004 by PlatoHagel

Everyone knows that human societies organize themselves. But it is also true that nature organizes itself, and that the principles by which it does this is what modern science, and especially modern physics, is all about. The purpose of my … Continue reading →

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