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Zombie Central
Peter Woit:Hopefully Nature won’t take its place as Zombie-central… December 30th, 2007 at 11:10 am if link deleted(yep! it sure has:) see here Plato said, “I have never deviated from the name I use, so you get the sense of who I am. I do not see how “pushing back the physics and energies involved”…
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Are there Patterns to Life?
Its grandness, goodness, beauty and perfection are unexcelled. Our one universe, indeed, the only one of its kind, has come to be.Timaeus concludes I was just thinking about the idea of being a mathematical structure, and having been made aware of Max Tegmark, it drew me back to the idea of the “soccer ball universe.”…
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E8 and the Blackhole
“I’m a Platonist — a follower of Plato — who believes that one didn’t invent these sorts of things, that one discovers them. In a sense, all these mathematical facts are right there waiting to be discovered.”Donald (H. S. M.) Coxeter There are two reasons that having mapped E8 is so important. The practical one…
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The CrossOver Point within the Perfect Fluid?
I had been following this research because of what I had been trying to understand when we take our understanding down to a certain level. That level is within the context of us probing the collision process for evidence of “some new physics” that we had not seen before. Evidence for Neutrino Oscillations from the…
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Nurturing Creativity
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Finiteness in String Theory Landscape
Quantum Effect, however allow a manifold to change state abruptly at some point-to tunnel through the intervening ridge to a nearby lower valley. Please take note of the underlined. Well after some thought here in terms of the landscape, it was important from what I understood, that finiteness be explained in the String Theory landscape.…
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IN Search of Mandelstam’s Holy Grail
There are two posts that reflect the purpose of this post today. One is Clifford’s linked through Lee Smolin’s comment and the other, at Backreaction. Good Physics is Conflict A lot of you may never understand the significance of the mystery that follows the thinking of the Holy Grail. Yet is it more the knowledge…
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Against Symmetry
The term “symmetry” derives from the Greek words sun (meaning ‘with’ or ‘together’) and metron (‘measure’), yielding summetria, and originally indicated a relation of commensurability (such is the meaning codified in Euclid’s Elements for example). It quickly acquired a further, more general, meaning: that of a proportion relation, grounded on (integer) numbers, and with the…
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Finiteness of String Theory and Mandelstam
It might be that the laws change absolutely with time; that gravity for instance varies with time and that this inverse square law has a strength which depends on how long it is since the beginning of time. In other words, it’s possible that in the future we’ll have more understanding of everything and physics…
