Tag Archives: General Relativity

The Microstates of Quantum Gravity

Posted on January 19, 2005 by PlatoHagel

Science is the attempt to make the chaotic diversity of our sense-experience correspond to a logically uniform system of thought -Albert Einstein Fig.1: Generally Grouping Order increases the density of objects within a frame of reference, resulting in a more … Continue reading →

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KK: Kaluza Klein Theory

Posted on January 13, 2005 by PlatoHagel

What is it? KK Tower Now part of the problem of visualization here is what and how the cosmic string could have developed. Now, determination of the various sizing of these strings would have had to incorporate the value of … Continue reading →

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GR Reduced From Higher Dimensions?

Posted on January 4, 2005 by PlatoHagel

Earlier in my blog, I posted a subject called the Classical discription of the quantum world Now it was a big leap of faith on my part that I saw these events as distilliations of a larger and more dynamic … Continue reading →

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Dilation and the Cosmic String

Posted on December 19, 2004 by PlatoHagel

One such field, called the dilaton, is the master key to string theory; it determines the overall strength of all interactions. The dilaton fascinates string theorists because its value can be reinterpreted as the size of an extra dimension of … Continue reading →

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Catch a Wave From Space

Posted on December 17, 2004 by PlatoHagel

Imagine the journey it took for us to have come to the developement of the methods to discern the nature of the Universe, and what Einstein has done for us in terms of General Relativity. A statement, about Gravity. Imagine … Continue reading →

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Quantum Geometry

Posted on December 9, 2004 by PlatoHagel

Mathematics is not the rigid and rigidity-producing schema that the layman thinks it is; rather, in it we find ourselves at that meeting point of constraint and freedom that is the very essence of human nature. – Hermann Weyl I … 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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Quantum Harmonic Oscillators

Posted on December 5, 2004 by PlatoHagel

If the basis of this thinking has not emerged out of GR then what value could we have assigned zero point vibration? If the scalable features of GR could not have followed some geometrical thinking, then the world that we … 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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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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