Category Archives: WunderKammern

Artifacts in the Exploration of Geometry

Posted on October 22, 2009 by PlatoHagel

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK It should not be lost on individuals who have followed this blog, that there is a range of connection to Platonic Forms idealization, that such an artifact in Ashmolean Museum although modeled to represent a reality … Continue reading →

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Tipping LightCones and the Escape Velocity of a Photon

Posted on March 12, 2008 by PlatoHagel

“Black Hole” by Tamsin van Essen Also see: Tamsin van Essen-Ceramic Design Wonderful and creative thinking to what remains a mystery to a lot of people who do not ever get to see what cancer looks like or what it … Continue reading →

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IN Search of Mandelstam’s Holy Grail

Posted on March 14, 2007 by PlatoHagel

There are two posts that reflect the purpose of this post today. One is Clifford’s linked through Lee Smolin’s comment and the other, at Backreaction. Good Physics is Conflict A lot of you may never understand the significance of the … Continue reading →

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Artifacts of the Geometrical WunderKammern

Posted on February 26, 2007 by PlatoHagel

As one visits the mathematical puzzles and conjectures, what value these insights to the physics or our universe if we did not see things in this way? As artifacts of some other kind of geometrical thinking that we could then … Continue reading →

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Visual Abstraction to Equations

Posted on December 13, 2006 by PlatoHagel

Sylvester’s models lay hidden away for a long time, but recently the Mathematical Institute received a donation to rescue some of them. Four of these were carefully restored by Catherine Kimber of the Ashmolean Museum and now sit in an … Continue reading →

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Beyond the Dance of the Sun

Posted on September 6, 2006 by PlatoHagel

When we first start facing truth, the process may be frightening, and many people run back to their old lives. But if you continue to seek truth, you will eventually be able to handle it better. In fact, you want … Continue reading →

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Concepts of the Fifth Dimension

Posted on April 23, 2006 by PlatoHagel

“Yet I exist in the hope that these memoirs, in some manner, I know not how, may find their way to the minds of humanity in Some Dimensionality, and may stir up a race of rebels who shall refuse to … Continue reading →

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Arthur Koestler and Creativity

Posted on April 9, 2006 by PlatoHagel

True creativity often starts where language ends. Arthur Koestler For those who engaged the issue of intuition, can we say that this is very close to what creativity is ,and the quote suplied above, is in essence. Is the mind, … Continue reading →

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Working the Angles UNtil They Add Up Too?

Posted on April 7, 2006 by PlatoHagel

I assume now, you are in the non-eucldiean inferences? If people had thought “the negative” always evil, then what value any “dynamic of thinking” if we could not resolve what we had been doing by changing the shape of our … Continue reading →

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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 →

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