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Angels and Demons on a Pinhead
“Observations always involve theory.”Edwin Hubble Curvature Parameters Of course I had to point to the cosmological understanding that took us to this “geometrical understanding of things that are large.” But this is to be short, while I crunch the thoughts of the process to the pinhead. You can follow the “picture links” and learn more…
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Symmetries Can be Chaotically Complex
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Wolf-Rayet star
While I have started off with the definition of the Wolf-Rayet star, the post ends in understanding the aspects of gravity and it’s affects, as we look at what has become of these Wolf-Rayet stars in their desimination of it’s constituent properties. Similar, “in my thinking” to the expansion of our universe? Artist’s impression of…
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First Stars Behind the Scene
There are several recognized processes from the early universe that leave relic effects setting the stage for galaxy formation and evolution. We deal here with the first generarion of stars, primordial nucleosynthesis, the epoch of recombination, and the thermal history of various cosmic backgrounds. Part of understanding the time line is first knowing where the…
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The Geometrics Behind the Supernova and it’s History
It is not always easy for people to see what lies behind the wonderful beauty of images that we take from the satellite measures of space, and it’s dynamical events illustrated in Cassiopeia A. There before you is this majestic image of beauty, as we wonder about it’s dynamics. These Spitzer Space Telescope images, taken…
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Reaching for the Stars
Mars in 6 weeks? And back in a total of four months? That’s the prediction of a design team working on antimatter rocket concepts at Pennsylvania State University. But first, you have to get the stuff – and store it. (PSU) The popular belief is that an antimatter particle coming in contact with its matter…
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Ring World
Impact armor, a flexible form of clothing that hardens instantly into a rigid form stronger than steel when rapidly deformed (for example, by the impact of a projectile such as a bullet) – a technology which is quickly approaching reality; in fact being tested during the 2006 Winter Olympics as a product called d3o Lest…
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Below the Surface is a Pattern
Stephen Hawking: However, by using “matter/antimatter annihilation”, velocities just below the speed of light could be reached, making it possible to reach the next star in about six years. While I presented the “break through in propulsion system” used for space travel by explaining the ideas behind Susskind’s “thought experiment.” It is with that thinking,…
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Allotropes and the Ray of Creation
Just thinking here about “life” in general and dreaming. As well, this takes us back to the article from Backreaction. This post was generated in response to Q’s comment and my subsequent statements that I supplied in turn. Take “full note of Fermion” discription here, as well as, theoretical understanding implied. Just to note now…
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Donald Coxeter: The Man Who Saved Geometry
“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.”Harold Scott Macdonald (H. S. M.) Coxeter Some would stop those from continuing on, and sharing the world behind…
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At What "Point" does the Universe Make itself Known?
According to the basic laws of physics, every wavelength of electromagnetic radiation corresponds to a specific amount of energy. The NIST/ILL team determined the value for energy in the Einstein equation, E = mc2, by carefully measuring the wavelength of gamma rays emitted by silicon and sulfur atoms. This, was encapsulated in a “point before…
