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Spacetime 101
Here’s some basic background covering how mathematical models of space and time have evolved since ancient times, from the Pythagorean Rule to Newtonian mechanics, Special Relativity and General Relativity. For the roads leading to one’s view of the strange world of non-euclidean views had to offer, I of course needed some model from which to…
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Accretion Disks
“For everyone, as I think, must see that astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.” Plato Lubos Motl: One of the potentially far-reaching consequences of Eva’s and Gary’s paper is that they seem to have found some stringy realization of the black hole final state by Horowitz…
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Kilometric Radiation?
So we use physics in ways to change the way we see? Here are some examles from the Cassini Project and Wikipedia. Cassini Plasma Spectrometer (CAPS) The Cassini Plasma Spectrometer (CAPS) is a direct sensing instrument that measures the energy and electrical charge of particles such as electrons and protons that the instrument encounters. CAPS…
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Collision course creates microscopic ‘black holes’
Physics At The End Of The Galactic Cosmic Ray Spectrum will take place in Aspen, Colorado at the Aspen Center for Physics from April 26 to 30, 2005. Sean Carroll: Among other responses to the post about fundamental physics in the U.S., there was a position that one occasionally hears: “Who cares about particle physics,…
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CERN and Future Experiments
I needed to come back down to earth for a minute to see where the trend is going with those who shall lead us poor earthlings into the future of experimental research and profound understandings. It would be nice to see perspectives by Lubos, PeterWoit the group here(meaning their blogs), as we look in this…
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Breathing New Life into Existance
Of course there is always caution that must be exercised, so I went looking for a discription of what might be extolled as the following in thread as examples? A black hole in astrophysics often has two distinct meanings. The first is the black hole in a general relativistic sense – the extreme gravitational case…
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Education, Now Stimulates Creativity:-)
The nice thing about good educators is the resource that they can help point lay people to to encourage exploration and thought provocation. It is not to nice to have controls place on the the ability of resource searchers to be limited by conceptual hangups that have stagnated educational valubales from ever seeing the light…
