Tag Archives: Einstein

Quantum Mechanical Discription of the Spacetime Fabric

Posted on December 8, 2004 by PlatoHagel

Richard Feynman developed the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics in 1948 (some preliminaries were worked out earlier, in the course of his doctoral thesis work with John Archibald Wheeler) as a description of quantum theory corresponding to the action … Continue reading →

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What Do We Mean When We Say "Continuum"?

Posted on December 7, 2004 by PlatoHagel

Here’s a description Albert Einstein gave on p. 83 of his Relativity: The Special and the General Theory: The surface of a marble table is spread out in front of me. I can get from any one point on this … Continue reading →

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The Elastic Nature?

Posted on December 5, 2004 by PlatoHagel

As I have explained in a earlier link I am fascinated by the images of bubbles that were demonstrated through a way of thinking of the early universe to arise as Bubble Nucleation. These images all show the 2-, 3-, … Continue reading →

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Quantum Microstates: Gas Molecules in the Presence of a Gravitational Field

Posted on December 4, 2004 by PlatoHagel

Andy Strominger: This was a field theory that lived on a circle, which means it has one spatial dimension and one time dimension. We derived the fact that the quantum states of the black hole could be represented as the … Continue reading →

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Mapping Quark Confinement and The Energy

Posted on December 2, 2004 by PlatoHagel

As I moved through the thinking of those extra dimensions it became apparent to me that the conceptualization of that distance scale was a strange world indeed. How, if we had accept the move to non-euclidean views could we not … Continue reading →

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Quantum Geometricization: The Struggle

Posted on November 29, 2004 by PlatoHagel

If Lorentz symmetry is broken by some mechanism originating at the Planck scale, is there any hope of detecting such an effect? Surprisingly, the answer is yes. Over the past decade Kostelecky and co-workers have been exploring how a violation … Continue reading →

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Non Euclidean Geometry and the Universe

Posted on November 28, 2004 by PlatoHagel

With Critical density ( Omega ), matter distinctions become apparent, when looking at the computerized model of Andrey Kravtsov. Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann 1826 – 1866 Riemannian Geometry, also known as elliptical geometry, is the geometry of the surface of … Continue reading →

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No Royal Road to Geometry?

Posted on November 26, 2004 by PlatoHagel

All those who have written histories bring to this point their account of the development of this science. Not long after these men came Euclid, who brought together the Elements, systematizing many of the theorems of Eudoxus, perfecting many of … Continue reading →

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Is Line , Hook and Sinker, Dimensionally Leading to Soul Food?

Posted on November 21, 2004 by PlatoHagel

Oskar Klein (left) proposed in the 1920s that hidden spatial dimensions might influence observed physics. He poses with physicists George Uhlenbeck (middle) and Samuel Goudsmit in 1926 at the University of Leiden, the Netherlands. AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives I … Continue reading →

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Are Strings as Spacetime an Emergent Phenomena?

Posted on November 16, 2004 by PlatoHagel

One thing I can tell you, though, is that most string theorist’s suspect that spacetime is a emergent Phenomena in the language of condensed matter physics. Above Witten asks a legitmate question, and so does Gerard t’Hooft as shown in … Continue reading →

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