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Analysis of Unification Prospects.
Socrates: If the geometry of spacetime describes gravitation, and quantum theory describes the behaviour of microscopic systems, what mathematical structure could consistently describe their relationship—and what evidence would allow us to test it? Socrates: The unknown beneath the point A geometric network emerges from darkness, dissolving into probability waves near a central threshold. A few…
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From Hidden Flow to Living Light
The singularity in the lyric should be understood as a metaphor for the point at which our present description of the flow breaks down, not as a claim that QGP literally becomes a singularity. In our structure, it is better to distinguish three meanings: ╔══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╗POINTA localized manifestation of a deeper field or flow. ↓ FLOWGradients,…
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Black holes, quantum information, and the foundations of physics
Volume 66, Issue 4, April 2013 Quantum mechanics teaches that black holes evaporate by radiating particles—a lesson indicating that at least one pillar of modern physics must fall. See: Black holes, quantum information, and the foundations of physics by Steven B. Giddings, in Physics Today, April 2013 Based on an image from NASA/CXC/M.Weiss Citation: Phys.…
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Black Hole Thoughts are Spoken: Complementarity vs Firewall
Black Holes: Complementarity vs Firewalls Subtitle: Strings 2012 Speaker: Raphael Bousso Location: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München Date: 27.07.2012 @ 16:04 Ahmed Almheiri, Donald Marolf, Joseph Polchinski, James Sully We argue that the following three statements cannot all be true: (i) Hawking radiation is in a pure state, (ii) the information carried by the radiation is emitted from the region near the…
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The Black Hole of What?
In networking, black holes refer to places in the network where incoming traffic is silently discarded (or “dropped”), without informing the source that the data did not reach its intended recipient. When examining the topology of the network, the black holes themselves are invisible, and can only be detected by monitoring the lost traffic; hence…
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The dimensionality and geometry of the extra dimensions
We investigate possible signatures of black hole events at the LHC in the hypothesis that such objects will not evaporate completely, but leave a stable remnant. For the purpose of de fining a reference scenario, we have employed the publicly available Monte Carlo generator CHARYBDIS2, in which the remnant’s behavior is mostly determined by kinematic…
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Atlas Experiment Simulated Black Hole Photos
ATLAS Experiment © 2011 CERN A new view of a black hole event. ATLAS collision events. In some theories, microscopic black holes may be produced in particle collisions that occur when very-high-energy cosmic rays hit particles in our atmosphere. These microscopic-black-holes would decay into ordinary particles in a tiny fraction of a second and would…
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Macroscopic Similarities in a Microscopic World
Berkeley Lab Technology Dramatically Speeds Up Searches of Large DatabasesJon Bashor In the world of physics, one of the most elusive events is the creation and detection of “quark-gluon plasma,” the theorized atomic outcome of the “Big Bang” which could provide insight into the origins of the universe. By using experiments that involve millions of…
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"Lead by Physics," Faces the "Trouble With Physics"
The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory is a world-class scientific research facility that began operation in 2000, following 10 years of development and construction. Hundreds of physicists from around the world use RHIC to study what the universe may have looked like in the first few moments after its creation. RHIC…
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Cosmic Rays in Atlas
Like Piglet describing the Heffalump in Winnie the Pooh by AA Milne, one knows this started out in some fantastical world. More then, the “inkblot” as a comparison leads too/from, a fictional story, and became the fantasy of Alice that had already been mathematically set in motion? So, theree are “ground rules” on using the…
