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  • Raphael the Painter

    By ‘dilating’ and ‘expanding’ the scope of our attention we not only discover that ‘form is emptiness’ (the donut has a hole), but also that ’emptiness is form’ (objects precipitate out of the larger ‘space’) – to use Buddhist terminology. The emptiness that we arrive at by narrowing our focus on the innermost is identical…

  • CNO and the Law of Octaves

    “String theory—the hot topic in physics for the past 20 years—is a dead-end, says Smolin, one of the founders of Canada’s Perimeter Institute of Theoretical Physics and himself a lapsed string theorist. In fact, he (and others) argue convincingly, string theory isn’t even a fully formed theory—it’s just a “conjecture.”Publisher’s Weekly As we keep going…

  • Quantum Hall Effect

    This article below was set in motion by Stefan’s article,”Pencils, Black Holes, and the Klein Paradox”, at Backreaction. B will have to offer her perspective on the blackhole analogy. I offer mine.:) The fractional quantum Hall effect continues to be influential in theories about topological order. It is interesting to see the interconnecting links of…

  • Gold and Fool’s Gold

    Gold Perhaps the highest density known is reached in neutron star matter (see neutronium). The singularity at the centre of a black hole, according to general relativity, does not have any volume, so its density is undefined. The most dense naturally occurring substance on Earth is iridium, at about 22650 kg·m-3. A table of densities…

  • Carl Jung’s Symbolical Nature?

    The mandala can also be an image of eternity cycling through time and as such images soul’s and Nature’s circular journeys, as they are reflected in, for example, the Native American Medicine Wheel, in seasonal, rebirth and karmic cycles, in mythic journeys of going out and returning changed to one’s point of origin, and in…

  • Foundational Perspectives

    Do I work in construction, of course not. But I like models we develope. How we go about building them. While I may have developed them in my own mental and physical life, this entry, is about what the youth of today, can do in their own lives. I also wanted to speak about the…

  • Is the door open to the eruption of the sociology of knowledge?

    Nobody really thinks about the subtle perceptions that can make their way into the scientist’s mind? Do they? While, I had talked about the quiet places we like to go to find that peace of mind, it might be different for each of us? Maybe for Clifford, it is the stream. Maybe for a Witten…

  • Working the Angles UNtil They Add Up Too?

    I assume now, you are in the non-eucldiean inferences? If people had thought “the negative” always evil, then what value any “dynamic of thinking” if we could not resolve what we had been doing by changing the shape of our attitudes? :) Helen Joyce: Both spherical and hyperbolic geometries are examples of curved geometries, unlike…

  • Nodes and Anti-nodes

    Tool’s for measure. The center of the gyroscope is a jewel-like sphere of fused quartz. These spheres, the size of Ping-Pong balls, are the roundest objects ever made by man. The tiny spheres are enclosed inside a housing chamber to prevent disruption from sound waves, and chilled to almost absolute zero to prevent their molecular…

  • More on Wassily Kandinsky

    Synesthesia (Greek, syn = together + aisthesis = perception) is the involuntary physical experience of a cross-modal association. That is, the stimulation of one sensory modality reliably causes a perception in one or more different senses. I have some ideas around this, that if thought about, would have created differences in “phase states of mind”…

  • If it’s Not a Soccer Ball, What is it?

    Timaeus concludes And so now we may say that our account of the universe has reached its conclusion. This world of ours has received and teems with living things, mortal and immortal. A visible living thing containing visible things, and a perciptible God, the image of the intelligible Living Thing. Its grandness, goodness, beauty and…