Tag Archives: Emergence

Historical Figures Lead Us to the Topic of Entanglement

Posted on January 22, 2010 by PlatoHagel

Einstein Exhibit We regard quantum mechanics as a complete theory for which the fundamental physical and mathematical hypotheses are no longer susceptible of modification. –Heisenberg and Max Born, paper delivered to Solvay Congress of 1927 You know I have watched … Continue reading →

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The New Garden of Eden

Posted on August 19, 2008 by PlatoHagel

Is it more astonishing that a God created all that exists in six days, or that the natural processes of the creative universe have yielded galaxies, chemistry, life, agency, meaning, value, consciousness, culture without a Creator. In my mind and … Continue reading →

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The Inconceivable being Believable

Posted on July 28, 2008 by PlatoHagel

While string theory does not, at this point, predict our world, it can at the very least plausibly encompass it. No other theory has been shown to do that. Aaron Bergman’s book review of Peter Woit’s I think there is … Continue reading →

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Ueber die Hypothesen, welche der Geometrie zu Grunde liegen.

Posted on January 24, 2008 by PlatoHagel

As I pounder the very basis of my thoughts about geometry based on the very fabric of our thinking minds, it has alway been a reductionist one in my mind, that the truth of the reality would a geometrical one. … Continue reading →

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The center and the whole-what it means?

Posted on January 2, 2008 by PlatoHagel

If conceived as a series of ever-wider experiential contexts, nested one within the other like a set of Chinese boxes, consciousness can be thought of as wrapping back around on itself in such a way that the outermost ‘context’ is … Continue reading →

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The History of Magnetic Vision

Posted on September 28, 2007 by PlatoHagel

Grossmann is getting his doctorate on a topic that is connected with non-Euclidean geometry. I don’t know what it is. Einstein to Mileva Maric,1902 Animal Navigation The long-distance navigational abilities of animals have fascinated humans for centuries and challenged scientists … Continue reading →

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Heralded from the 21st Century: String Theory

Posted on March 25, 2007 by PlatoHagel

I know not how, may find their way to the minds of humanity in Some Dimensionality, and may stir up a race of rebels who shall refuse to be confined to limited Dimensionality.” from Flatland, by E. A. Abbott It … Continue reading →

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Music of Hemispheres

Posted on January 12, 2007 by PlatoHagel

Hearing Colors, Tasting Shapes By Vilayanur S. Ramachandran and Edward M. Hubbard Modern scientists have known about synesthesia since 1880, when Francis Galton, a cousin of Charles Darwin, published a paper in Nature on the phenomenon. But most have brushed … Continue reading →

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Quantum Computation and Evolution?

Posted on November 8, 2006 by PlatoHagel

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) Of course a lot … Continue reading →

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Quantum Hall Effect

Posted on September 7, 2006 by PlatoHagel

This article below was set in motion by Stefan’s article,”Pencils, Black Holes, and the Klein Paradox”, at Backreaction. B will have to offer her perspective on the blackhole analogy. I offer mine.:) The fractional quantum Hall effect continues to be … Continue reading →

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