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A Short Dialogue, in the Manner of Socrates
Socrates: Tell me, Platohagel, when you first learned of motion, how was it described to you? Platohagel: As a body moving in a straight line unless acted upon by a force. Socrates: And this straight line—where did it live? Platohagel: In an empty, fixed space. Euclidean, uniform, the same everywhere. Socrates: So gravity, in that…
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PLATO:Mathematician or Mystic ?
Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty, a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trappings of painting or music, yet sublimely pure, and capable of a stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show. The true…
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Three Ring Circus: Dark Energy
“Observations always involve theory.”Edwin Hubble Hopefully some day, I will be accepted as a student of this universe, and it’s intrigue? Sometimes it is necessary to understand that having come to different consclusion about the geometry of this universe that underneath the complexity of these equations a schematic drawing of reality is unfolding? I think…
