Tag Archives: Condensed Matter

Historical Approach of the Sand Reckoner

Posted on September 29, 2006 by PlatoHagel

I should pave the way for how the thoughts that are unfolding this morning. But nothing afflicted Marcellus so much as the death of Archimedes, who was then, as fate would have it, intent upon working out some problem by … Continue reading →

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What’s on the Condense Matter Theorist’s Mind?

Posted on September 13, 2006 by PlatoHagel

The Theory of Everything Prof. Robert B. Laughlin The crystalline state is the simplest known example of a quantum , a stable state of matter whose generic low-energy properties are determined by a higher organizing principle and nothing else. Robert … Continue reading →

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Numerical Relativity and Math Transference

Posted on August 27, 2006 by PlatoHagel

Part of the advantage of looking at computer animations is knowing that the basis of this vision that is being created, is based on computerized methods and codes, devised, to help us see what Einstein’s equations imply. Now that’s part … Continue reading →

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From the Stillness Born

Posted on August 13, 2006 by PlatoHagel

Can harmonic oscillators serve as a bridge between quantum mechanics and special relativity? “Daddy, is this the World,” my young son asks, as we drive through the neighborhood with which we lived. This still sits deep in my conscious mind, … Continue reading →

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Quantum Mechanics: Determinism at Planck Scale

Posted on April 6, 2006 by PlatoHagel

Perhaps Quantum Gravity can be Handled by thoroughly reconsidering Quantum Mechanics itself?– Gerard t’ Hooft Albert Einstein used harmonic oscillators to understand specific heats of solids and found that energy levels are quantized. This formed one of the key bridges … Continue reading →

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Nodes and Anti-nodes

Posted on April 3, 2006 by PlatoHagel

Tool’s for measure. The center of the gyroscope is a jewel-like sphere of fused quartz. These spheres, the size of Ping-Pong balls, are the roundest objects ever made by man. The tiny spheres are enclosed inside a housing chamber to … Continue reading →

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Have we seen (strange) quark matter?

Posted on March 7, 2006 by PlatoHagel

Well the very idea that such a thing could exist, has been part of the evolving information I had been going through. To be lead to the understanding, of what new Physics would emerge fromm cosmological and collidial events. That … Continue reading →

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Plato and Aristotle

Posted on February 24, 2006 by PlatoHagel

Plato – holding the Timaeus – Pointing up as a sign of his metaphysical belief in the higher world of the forms, shown with the face of Leonardo. Aristotle – holding his Ethics with hand palm down, reflecting a more … Continue reading →

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The Blackhole as a Superfluid: It’s Viscosity

Posted on January 7, 2006 by PlatoHagel

Now you must understand that thinking of any first principle is hard to refrain from, especially, if one had thought like I do, that the geometrical tendencies are inherent in the way this is handled, and that it leads to … Continue reading →

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Laughlin, Reductionism, Emergence

Posted on December 10, 2005 by PlatoHagel

I am still operating from the idea of Xtra-Dimensions. What motivating force would have brought such a quantum gravity group together and the aspect it might have spoken from? What mysterious forces motivates all these ladies/ gentlemen? Everyone knows that … Continue reading →

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