Tag Archives: Colour of Gravity

Our Consciousness can "Contain the Future?"

Posted on May 25, 2008 by PlatoHagel

I just happen to visit Cosmic Variance yesterday after not visiting for some time. The timing seemed appropriate to my questions about our histories, not only from a detailed research perspective, but from a personal one as well in terms … Continue reading →

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Decomposable Limits of Definitions

Posted on May 20, 2008 by PlatoHagel

With the discovery of sound waves in the CMB, we have entered a new era of precision cosmology in which we can begin to talk with certainty about the origin of structure and the content of matter and energy in … Continue reading →

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That Mysterious Flow

Posted on May 7, 2008 by PlatoHagel

That Mysterious Flow by Paul Davies This is a follow up post to the article Andrew Thomas presented for Bee article at Backreaction, “Every Now and Then.” It would have been nice to be able to see the content of … Continue reading →

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The Toposense of Spacetime

Posted on April 11, 2008 by PlatoHagel

Topo-Greek, from topos, place. Basic Examples In the early 1960s Grothendieck chose the Greek word topos (which means “place”) to denote a mathematical object that would provide a general framework for his theory of étale cohomology and other variants related … Continue reading →

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Blackhole Information Paradox

Posted on March 26, 2008 by PlatoHagel

What good is a universe without somebody around to look at it?Robert Dicke John Archibald Wheeler (born July 9, 1911) is an eminent American theoretical physicist. One of the later collaborators of Albert Einstein, he tried to achieve Einstein’s vision … Continue reading →

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God the Geometer

Posted on March 14, 2008 by PlatoHagel

Let proportion be found not only in numbers, but also in sounds, weights, times and positions, and whatever force there is.Leonardo Da Vinci Vitruvian Man by Leonardo da Vinci. Leonardo is clearly illustrating Vitruvius De Architectura 3.1.3 which reads: The … Continue reading →

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Brain Matters

Posted on March 9, 2008 by PlatoHagel

Felix Christian Klein1849 – 1925 “Thus, in a sense, mathematics has been most advanced by those who distinguished themselves by intuition rather than by rigorous proofs.“ We know the substance of the matters that house our thinking minds. How much … Continue reading →

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Mapping the Pathway Inside

Posted on March 6, 2008 by PlatoHagel

Although [God] did make use of the relevant auxiliary causes, it was he himself who gave their fair design to all that comes to be. That is why we must distinguish two forms of cause, the divine and the necessary. … Continue reading →

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Inside Out

Posted on February 12, 2008 by PlatoHagel

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. Aristotle took a more moderate view, that both emotion and reason … Continue reading →

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The Other Side of the Coin

Posted on December 11, 2007 by PlatoHagel

Susan Holmes– Statistician Persi Diaconis’ mechanical coin flipper. In football’s inaugural kickoff coin toss, the coin is not caught but allowed to bounce on the ground. That introduces an extra complication, one mathematicians have yet to sort out. Persi Diaconis … Continue reading →

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