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Where is the Point (Repost)
Wednesday, April 05, 2006 Quantum Mechanics: Determinism at Planck Scale? Perhaps Quantum Gravity can be Handled by thoroughly reconsidering Quantum Mechanics itself?– Gerard t’ Hooft Albert Einstein used harmonic oscillators to understand specific heats of solids and found that energy levels are quantized. This formed one of the key bridges between classical and quantum mechanics. …
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Musical Acoustics
A recipe for a violin Chladni patterns show the geometry of the different types of vibration of violin plates. This site has an introductory explanation of modes of vibration and a library of photographs of the Chladni patterns of the bellies and backplates of two different violins (one mass-produced and one hand-made). It also has…
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Poincaré Hyperbolic Disk
See also:Poincaré Hyperbolic Disk *** Hyperbolic Geometry Geometric models of hyperbolic geometry include the Klein-Beltrami model, which consists of an open disk in the Euclidean plane whose open chords correspond to hyperbolic lines. A two-dimensional model is the Poincaré hyperbolic disk. Weisstein, Eric W. “Hyperbolic Geometry.” From MathWorld–A Wolfram Web Resource. http://mathworld.wolfram.com/HyperbolicGeometry.html *** A…
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Physical geodesy: A Condensative Result
The cave was discovered in 2000The 120m-deep Cueva de las Espadas (Cave of Swords), discovered in 1912, is named for its metre-long shafts of gypsum (a calcium sulphate mineral that incorporates water molecules into its chemical formula). And although individually there are fewer crystals in the 290m-deep Cueva de los Cristales, its beams are considerably…
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Neutrino Mixing Explained in 60 seconds
I added this post to demonstrate the connection to what is behind the investigation to “neutrino mixing” that needs further clarification. So I put this blog post together below. It “allows the sources” to consider the question of how we see the existing universe. How perspective has been focused toward the reductionist understanding while we…
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Democritus had Passion and Heat?
It seems “humour” is pervading the internet today, so I thought I would add my take. Democritus Laughing, by Hendrick ter Brugghen, 1628, in Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam According to legend, Democritus was supposed to be mad because he laughed at everything, and so he was sent to Hippocrates to be cured. Hippocrates pointed out that he…
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Revolutions of the Archetype
The concept of Tao is based upon the understanding that the only constant in the universe is change (see I Ching, the “Book of Changes”) and that we must understand and be in harmony with this change. The change is a constant flow from non-being into being, potential into actual, yin into yang, female into…
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Radiactive Decay
Unit Circle Complex numbers can be identified with points in the Euclidean plane, namely the number a + bi is identified with the point (a, b). Under this identification, the unit circle is a group under multiplication, called the circle group. This group has important applications in mathematics and science. See here. Just briefly showing…
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Collider Detector at Fermilab and Slac
Current evidence shows that neutrinos do oscillate, which indicates that neutrinos do have mass. The Los Alamos data revealed a muon anti-neutrino cross over to an electron neutrino. This type of oscillation is difficult to explain using only the three known types of neutrinos. Therefore, there might be a fourth neutrino, which is currently being…
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SOLAR B and Van Ellen Belts
SCIENCE GOALS OF SOLAR-B To determine the mechanisms responsible for heating the corona in active regions and the quiet Sun. There are of course reasons why you want to keep these perspectives together. While I have been extolling the virtues of Grace satelitte systems and climate it has been noticed that the developing framework of…
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Moore’s Law Endangered?
Moore’s Law(wikipedia 28 May 2006) Moore’s law is the empirical observation that the complexity of integrated circuits, with respect to minimum component cost, doubles every 24 months[1]. Clifford, in writing the brief article of interest, he relays another article here for consideration. Spotting the quantum tracks of gravity wavesby Zeeya Merali Their calculations show that…
