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  • Historical Approach of the Sand Reckoner

    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 a diagram, and having fixed his mind alike and his eyes upon the subject of…

  • Now, here is a SuperNova for Real

    The Crab Nebula from VLT Credit: FORS Team, 8.2-meter VLT, ESO Now the “ultimate proof” is to hold in our hands the matters defined by objects. This is the culmination of all dimensional perspectives, being “condensed to the moment” we hold the stardust samples in our hands. In that case, it may be of a…

  • Cyclic Universe Could Explain Cosmological Constant

    Thanks Paul for pointing this article out here some time ago. Physicists have proposed several theories to explain why Λ is so small. One of the most popular — the “anthropic principle” — states that Λ is randomly set and has very different values in different parts of the universe (figure 1). We happen to…

  • What is the False Vacuum?

    Quantum Field Theory Quantum Vacuum: In classical physics, empty space is called the vacuum. The classical vacuum is utterly featureless. However, in quantum theory, the vacuum is a much more complex entity. The uncertainty principle allows virtual particles (each corresponding to a quantum field) continually materialize out of the vacuum, propagate for a short time…

  • Emergence: A Point in Spacetime

    We used to think that if we knew one, we knew two, because one and one are two. We are finding out that we must learn a great deal more about ‘and’.” – Sir Arthur Eddington (1882-1944) Foundational perspectives are important to me, and are part and parcel of a larger frame of thinking that…

  • Clifford and The Singularity

    Horatiu is referring to a mathematical similarity between the physics of the real world, which govern RHIC collisions, and the physics that scientists use to describe a theoretical, “imaginary” black hole in a hypothetical world with a different number of space-time dimensions (more than the four dimensions — three space directions and time — that…

  • Gold and Fool’s Gold

    Gold Perhaps the highest density known is reached in neutron star matter (see neutronium). The singularity at the centre of a black hole, according to general relativity, does not have any volume, so its density is undefined. The most dense naturally occurring substance on Earth is iridium, at about 22650 kg·m-3. A table of densities…

  • GRand Quantum Conjecture

    My continued looked into the “fluids dynamics” had me wonder about the superfluid anomalies. How would the “sphere look” if it collapsed and allowed information to travel through it, based on what has been given here for perspective, when the “state of equillibrum” is arrived at? In regards to 3, let’s just say the assumption…

  • THEORETICAL MATHEMATICS

    Before I was to ask the question below I had gone through the links given by Alejandro RIvero and in and thinking of the work I had been doing to understand this relation between mathematics and the physics world. Of course as you know I am deeply involved in building a “foundational perspective” in a…

  • Purpose of the Compton Lecture Series

    April 8The 63rd Compton Lecture Series, 2006 through June 3, 2006, 11:00 a.m. Sean at cosmic variance point to this series of lectures that are being presented each year and in this series the entitled is called, “String Theory: With a View Towards Reality” which will be presented by Nicholas Halmagyi, McCormick Fellow, Enrico Fermi…

  • Nodes and Anti-nodes

    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 prevent disruption from sound waves, and chilled to almost absolute zero to prevent their molecular…