Tag Archives: Mathematics

Against Symmetry

Posted on December 14, 2006 by PlatoHagel

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, … Continue reading →

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Visual Abstraction to Equations

Posted on December 13, 2006 by PlatoHagel

Sylvester’s models lay hidden away for a long time, but recently the Mathematical Institute received a donation to rescue some of them. Four of these were carefully restored by Catherine Kimber of the Ashmolean Museum and now sit in an … Continue reading →

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Graviton in a Can?

Posted on November 12, 2006 by PlatoHagel

After you consume “graviton in a can,” you might never be the same? Brane thinking may then dominate your every view of the world. Then, it will all make sense? Imagine while we peer deeper into the subject of the … Continue reading →

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The Radius of the Little Circle

Posted on October 23, 2006 by PlatoHagel

Where a dictionary proceeds in a circular manner, defining a word by reference to another, the basic concepts of mathematics are infinitely closer to an indecomposable element”, a kind of elementary particle” of thought with a minimal amount of ambiguity … Continue reading →

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The History of "Star Shine to Now"

Posted on October 21, 2006 by PlatoHagel

In “The String Saga of Star Shine” I gave a distant measure of how we might seen any event from that time to now. But before I begin I wanted to link Lubos’s mention of article from David G to … Continue reading →

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Doppelgänger Favors Oscillate

Posted on October 20, 2006 by PlatoHagel

“Observations always involve theory.”Edwin Hubble Of course I relate the “Ghost Particle to Pauli” here so that people would recognize the faint discerning image in “mirror world,” as some calculation that paved the way for some future spoken from Feynman’s … Continue reading →

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George Gabriel Stokes

Posted on October 12, 2006 by PlatoHagel

Sir George Gabriel Stokes, 1st Baronet (13 August 1819–1 February 1903) was an Irish mathematician and physicist, who at Cambridge made important contributions to fluid dynamics (including the Navier-Stokes equations), optics, and mathematical physics (including Stokes’ theorem). He was secretary, … Continue reading →

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What is Cerenkov Radiation?

Posted on October 11, 2006 by PlatoHagel

…the creative principle resides in mathematics. In a certain sense therefore, I hold it true that pure thought can grasp reality, as the ancients dreamed.Albert Einstein Many do not recognize the process that unfolds in the developing perspectives about theoretics? … Continue reading →

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Box Counting or "Points" on the Strings Length?

Posted on October 9, 2006 by PlatoHagel

The jump from conventional field theories of point-like objects to a theory of one-dimensional objects has striking implications. The vibration spectrum of the string contains a massless spin-2 particle: the graviton. Its long wavelength interactions are described by Einstein’s theory … Continue reading →

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Gravitational Radiation

Posted on September 27, 2006 by PlatoHagel

How dry this article in comparison to what we can witness in the cosmo? One gets this sense of “curvature implied” that the events connected at locations in the universe could have been felt in other locations? What connects them? … Continue reading →

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