Tag Archives: Kip Thorne

The Universe Time Travel

Posted on August 26, 2010 by PlatoHagel

The mystery of time travel is explored as we embark on an adventure to reveal if traveling into the future will one day be a reality. Next we examine if traveling into the past will have bizarre consequences. Finally, are … Continue reading →

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Gravity is Talking, LISA will Listen

Posted on October 28, 2009 by PlatoHagel

It seems by measure the Interferometer has come a long way. If one recognizes how gravitational waves are measured, you come to understand how they can have a affect on laser light. Bee and Stefan of Backreaction have gone to … Continue reading →

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Correlating Gravitational Wave Production in LIGO

Posted on September 22, 2009 by PlatoHagel

Drawing by Glen Edwards, Utah State University, Logan, UT The most important thing is to be motivated by your own intellectual curiosity.KIP THORNE ***   Fig. 1. The four forces (or interactions) of Nature, their force carrying particles and the … Continue reading →

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Leaving Footprints

Posted on April 27, 2009 by PlatoHagel

Labyrinth on the portico of the cathedral of San Martino at Lucca, Tuscany, Italy. The term labyrinth is often used interchangeably with maze, but modern scholars of the subject use a stricter definition. For them, a maze is a tour … Continue reading →

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What are Memories made up of ?

Posted on April 23, 2009 by PlatoHagel

Illustration by The New York Times Some do indeed understand the fuzzy logic. These images are pixel orientated. They describe a process of thinking that is quite impermeable to the everyday biological function of the thinking brain that we have … Continue reading →

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Stargazers and Hill Climbers

Posted on February 13, 2009 by PlatoHagel

AS with Einstein, who was Socrates daemon?:) In Plato’s Apology of Socrates, Socrates claimed to have a daimonion (literally, a “divine something”)[6] that frequently warned him – in the form of a “voice” – against mistakes but never told him … Continue reading →

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Gran Sasso and the Pyramid

Posted on July 27, 2008 by PlatoHagel

What good is a universe without somebody around to look at it?Robert Dicke This summer, CERN gave the starting signal for the long-distance neutrino race to Italy. The CNGS facility (CERN Neutrinos to Gran Sasso), embedded in the laboratory’s accelerator … Continue reading →

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Time is Like a River

Posted on April 3, 2008 by PlatoHagel

How can a speck of a universe be physically identical to the great expanse we view in the heavens above? (Greene, The Elegant Universe, pages 248-249) As Alice learned, it’s not always clear what’s a looking glass, and what’s a … Continue reading →

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Blackhole Information Paradox

Posted on March 26, 2008 by PlatoHagel

What good is a universe without somebody around to look at it?Robert Dicke John Archibald Wheeler (born July 9, 1911) is an eminent American theoretical physicist. One of the later collaborators of Albert Einstein, he tried to achieve Einstein’s vision … Continue reading →

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Dennis William Sciama

Posted on March 25, 2008 by PlatoHagel

Dennis William Siahou Sciama FRS (November 18, 1926–December 18, 1999) was a British physicist who, through his own work and that of his students, played a major role in developing British physics after the Second World War. Sciama also strongly … Continue reading →

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